Tom Hendricks's Blog – September 2012 Archive (7)

Poems written in late September 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1. [a quatro]

stars between

home and town

2. [the best paintings do - but how I don't know]

my best paintings

at a certain point

cross a line

where magic seeps in

3. [From the bestiary collection of poems]

the circling bird

finds his wind

4.

the snow falls

and stays and stays.

spring comes -

it…

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MacArthur Park - I rewrite…

Poems written in September 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1. [True story]

"Talent is not enough,"

said my friend, Doug Rhone.

"The best spoons player in the whole universe -

So what?" said Doug Rhone.

2. [Poem for "Moon Tea" - kids poem collection]

I caught the tide with a fish hook

and put it in a jar.

now it's as timid as a dewdrop

shivering under the sun.

3. [For my Book of Moon…

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Here is another art anagram. Take the letters and rearrange them to get the painter's name - clue provided. 'I PAINT MODERN'

IS

Piet Mondrian - I had no correct answers - your brains were an anagram on this one.

I don't dumb down/so please wise up.

Now on to a new Q.: Win a copy of my NEW cd CALLED ‘30′! – (first anti-band CD) or my NEWER cd CALLED ‘NEXT”(‘06) or my NEWEST cd CALLED ‘THIRDS” (May…

MacARTHUR'S PARK ( Brand New Lyrics)

Look to left field and outside the box for this one - Remember that long, dramatic and classic song by the great songwriter, Jimmy Webb, from the 60's, called MacArthur's Park? Well I think most people will agree that the tune is GREAT but the lyrics are... well... at the very least, hard to make sense of. So I'm writing new lyrics. Sing along with them and compare them with the original. Below the lyrics, are three great versions of the song with…

Readers,

In a recent e-mail club message I wrote about how a law from 2008 forbade anyone selling any children’s books published before 1985 to children, unless they passed a lead content test! The law, that was trying to protect children from lead, went to extremes, and went waaaay too far. UPDATE – the law has been repealed. I got the word from Fred Woodworth’s long running zine about kids series books called, “The Mystery and Adventure Series Review”. Woodworth was one of MANY, that…

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

Architecture question this time. This world class hotel built a tricycle garage. Name it and tell me why it did that.

IS

The Plaza Hotel in NYC. They did it to celebrate their most important young guest, Kay Thompson's character and enfant terrible, "Eloise"

I had no correct answers. Seems your trike's bell was not ringing on this one. I don't dumb down/so please wise up.

Now on to a new Q.: Win a…