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Movies, mindfulness, and musings. With a sarcastic tone.

• Poem of the Week: On the Pulse of Morning Maya Angelou

  By Vegan Cinephile on May 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  On the Pulse of Morning read at the 1993 Presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On… Read More ›

• Remembering Maya Angelou

  By Vegan Cinephile on May 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I want to dedicate this week’s poem to Maya Angelou, who passed away this morning at the age of 86. Angelou, like her literary predecessor Walt Whitman, documented the hardships and ugliness of humankind with both an astute and lyrical… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Solitude: The Tower by Henri Cole

  By Vegan Cinephile on May 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Solitude: The Tower Long ago, I lived at the foot of the mountains, where my parents lived when they were young. Nearby, there was a daffodil farm, which I bicycled past each day on my way to the supermarket. Occasionally,… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Twilight by Louise Gück

  By Vegan Cinephile on May 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Twilight All day he works at his cousin’s mill, so when he gets home at night, he always sits at this one window, sees one time of day, twilight. There should be more time like this, to sit and dream…. Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Spark by Charles Bukowski

  By Vegan Cinephile on May 9, 2014 • ( 2 )

  Spark I always resented all the years, the hours, the minutes I gave them as a working stiff, it actually hurt my head, my insides, it made me dizzy and a bit crazy — I couldn’t understand the murdering of… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: My Mother Dwindles by Margaret Atwood

  By Vegan Cinephile on May 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  My Mother Dwindles My mother dwindles and dwindles and lives and lives. Her strong heart drives her as heedless as an engine through one night after another. Everyone says, This can’t go on, but it does. It’s like watching someone… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Trollius and trellises by Charles Bukowski

  By Vegan Cinephile on April 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Trollius and trellises of course, I may die in the next ten minutes and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about is that my editor-publisher might retire even though he is ten years younger than I. it… Read More ›

• Noah: Veganism Vindicated

  By Vegan Cinephile on April 20, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  “Maybe one day we will learn to be kind.” It’s hard for me to put into words exactly what I felt when I watched Darren Aronofsky’s Noah last weekend in full IMAX glory. As someone who left their Bible studies back… Read More ›

• Poem of the Week: Bored by Margaret Atwood

  By Vegan Cinephile on April 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Bored All those times I was bored out of my mind. Holding the log while he sawed it. Holding the string while he measured, boards, distances between things, or pounded stakes into the ground for rows and rows of lettuces… Read More ›

• Original Poem: Route 13, Beeline

  By Vegan Cinephile on April 15, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Route 13, Beeline Sometimes on the bus there are a lot of hats, sometimes there are an awful lot of books.  Today there is an abundance of crosses.  And not just the regular Guido kind, but get this-today I saw… Read More ›