Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Monday, April 16, 2018
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Harry Crews Biography
Harry Crews biography Blood, Bone And Marrow by Ted Geltner
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Doorways
Think
How many doorways
We pass through
In a lifetime?
Some
We casually stroll
Through
Some
We race through
Because we’re running late
For work
Or
Some place
We just have to be
To make this person
Or that person
Happy we attended
Their day of needing
Humans around them!
Yes
These doorways we deem
All so important!
We rush and go
To the trouble of always
Being on time
But
There are some folks
Who would trade anything
For the troubles
We walk through each day
For theirs
Without hesitation!
For
Their doorways lead in
And
Out
Of
Hell!
For the abused
The torn down
The unwanted
Doorways
That take unbelievable courage
To walk out of
And
Never return!
Like the home
Of
The battered wife
Her eye swollen shut
Her lip split
Scarlett drops of blood
Running down her chin
Baby on her hip
Scared out of her mind
That he will wakeup
Before she makes it out
Makes it to her car
Turns the ignition
Lights off
Creeping down
The driveway
Then down the road
And
Away from
The nightmare marriage
She had grown
To call normal!
So
The next time
You’re rushing out the door
Stop and think
What doorways
Some folks
Have had to go through
And
Your worries
Won’t seem so significant
Your time so pressing
Your life so awful
From my book, When The Cedars Shade Your Grave
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
My People
My people
Could have come straight
From
A Faulkner novel
The generations that came
Before me
Were rugged
Denim wearing folks
Logging timber out
Of
Florida’s backwater swamps
Making moonshine
In the Appalachian Foothills
Sitting up all night
With the dead
Before laying them to rest
In the sandy soil of
small-town
Southern cemeteries
Shaded with cedars
And
Longleaf pines!
My people were
Truck drivers
Farmers
Factory workers
War heroes
Parolees
And
Preachers
They doctored themselves
Because
They couldn’t afford
Going
To a doctor
Or the medicine prescribed
Afterwards!
They clotted
Bleeding wounds
With spider webs
Drew poison out
With tobacco
Relieved toothaches
With honey
And
Chest colds
With camphor tree leaves!
Yes
My people could’ve come
From a Faulkner Novel
Or
Maybe something
Flannery dreamed up!
Sunday, February 19, 2017
The Written Word
Writing for me
At times
Is like
My heart falling out
Of
My chest
And
Onto the page before me
Then my pen
Rearranging it into words
Into sentences
Into understanding
Why it fell out to begin with!
All
So I can move forward
Scoop it up
Place it back in my soul
And
Love once again
Yes
My written words
Become the sutures
That hold me
Together!
Wrapping around
My very existence
So even I
Will take a chance
And
Love once again
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
New Book : Your Words Will Sharpen
To start out with the dream of becoming a writer or poet in 1989 was to start out in a land of obscurity and rejection. You stood very little chance of being read by anyone, much less read by many. Now, twenty-six years later, Jason E. Hodges has been published by sixteen different publications, and had over one hundred and ten thousand page views on his blog, The Dirt Worker’s Journal. His fourth book, Your Words Will Sharpen, is an in-depth look into Hodges’ world through the eyes of poetry and prose. You see the people he encounters on the streets of his hometown, Gainesville, Florida, and on walks along Matanzas Bay in the old sandy city of St. Augustine. He takes you through life in the factories, the carwashes, and the jobs that bring on old age with speed. All of his daily encounters, along with icons of pop culture, blend together beautifully in this book to reflect the thoughts and memories of this modern poet. Your Words Will Sharpen is a fearless gaze into one’s self teetering on the line between sanity and truth.
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