Tag: Poetry
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I don’t know how to do it
Telling we don’t know how to do something is very important and it just helps us and the company we work for. It gets us the help we need to learn and do our job better. Now the question is does our company and our team and our manager give us that freedom to say…
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356/365 Today let me write a Poem
Not like what Neruda meant when he said ‘Tonight I can write the saddest lines’ But I just want my fingers to flow into words. I don’t care if it means anything. let it just flow. And here it goes I will stand up and walk towards the porchI will look up to see if…
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234/365 Poetry and Business – Finding that Link
In 1991 there was an essay in ‘The Atlantic’ by Dana Gioia titled ‘Can Poetry Matter? It points out that Poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America. If poets venture outside their confined world, they can work to make it essential once more This and a few other essays were then published as…
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215/365 Learning from Philip Levine on what Work Is
I was watching an interview with Philip Levine as he remembers his life in the Ford’s River Rouge Plant. As he talks about his life there; a time when his young self never knew if he would ever have a way out of there and not even in his wildest dreams did he think it…
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94/365 When you hear someone is no more
There are many people we know or have known or met in our life. Some people we never meet again. Some people we never know when they leave the world. And some people we learn have left us after some time. What do we feel when we learn someone is no more Yesterday my newsfeed…
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7/365 What poems did to me
I have had friends who like poems and those who don’t. Even among those who like poems I have seen who can go much deep into it and understand it. Not just understand it but also explain and speak about it in such captivating ways. I had nothing to do with poems till I started…
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