Thank you very much for your interest in my education and exploits as a poet over the past 20 years.
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Arc of the Poet Part 1: Life Poetry Part 2: Tour de Force Part 3: True Love Part 4: Spinning Out Part 5: Wake-Up Call Part 6: Serious Dreams Part 7: Home Stretch Part 8: Feedback Part 9: Dear Departures Part 10: Good Poetry Part 11: Rewrites Part 12: Resistance Part 13: Fame and Fortune Part 14: Ramblings Part 15: Being Between 1978 and 1989, I went from 12 to 23 … from wondering about being a man to being one. I have a short stack of decent poetic writings from those days, and as you’d expect, they are about…
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Eventually I came to feel that I could become famous, and accomplish all my lofty personal ambitions, through poetry.
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Back in May, 1998, Beth and I joined most of her Kiefert and Julien families in Tallahassee, Florida, for the wedding of her sister Ann and Chuck Bowling. I married into my wife’s family back in 1992, so I was very much at home with everyone gathered, as we all enjoyed an unforgettable weekend together with Chuck’s family, and their many friends who joined in the fun. The day before their wedding, Ann and Chuck invited us all to join them at one of their favorite places: The Birdsong Nature Center. Located in Thomasville, Georgia, just above the Florida-Georgia border,…
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To alert you that you have allowed yourself to be taken over by psychological time, you can use a simple criterion. Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn’t, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.
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by Beth Darnell. relentless year over perfectly loved leaping after life
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I originally wrote this unpublished experimental short back in 1994 specifically for an editor at a certain literary magazine. I touched-up a few lines in the version below this evening in honor of its 16-year anniversary. Suggestions for creative additions to the storyline are most welcome!
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by Roger Darnell. celebrate see and dream this evergreen bloom sun rain steam light shall father spring child she can wander a long gold-color balmy morning sky and blow snow across chilled winter storms
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The chills of mid-November are beginning to numb our Blue Ridge Mountains, reminding us of holidays and special occasions to come, even while the weekday routines roll along with dinner, homework, a bit of down-time, and then, for the kids, off-to-bed time. After arriving at that point last evening, Beth and I heartily enjoyed 500 Days of Summer. You may remember the trailer above, for last year’s “offbeat romantic comedy” directed by Marc Webb, starring Zooey Deschanel as Summer, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom. The screenplay from Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber has earned numerous awards, including the 2010 Independent…