Archive for: March, 2014

Uncategorized March 26, 2014

WONDER OF OUR STAGE

Hear the voice of the Bard!Who Present, Past, & Future sees … William Blake, Songs of Experience Last week was the first annual, national Shakespeare Week. In celebration, I offer two new sonnets, written as a tribute from an actor to the one whom Ben Jonson called ‘the wonder of our stage’: In progress A new …

Uncategorized March 8, 2014

LENTEN REFLECTION

This, as a coherent whole, only casually observed;never as yet tried in suffering or succeeding,held together for an enduring fulfillment,yet so as if for times to come, out of these scattered things,something serious and lasting were being planned. Rilke, ‘Self-Portrait’ (1906) A new film and a new sonnet: Here is neither a self-portrait nor a …