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Mar 09 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Wings of Truth

A Modern Cave

Spreading truth

in the face

of ignorance

we return to the cave

after experiencing

the beauty and wonder

of a better place

a more just world

a brighter future

We understand

the difficulty

you face

having lived in the

in the mostly dark

having only experienced

the shadows

that passed as reality

What we don’t understand

is why you can

no longer hear

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–February 27, 2009

Mar 06 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Art Link

Sunset in Key West with Rum & Coke

Rest

Every cell taut

the totality vibrates

with tension

stress slowly drains away

too slowly

grudgingly ceding

potential

in favor of

kinetic

I tingle

becoming

again

one with my

soul

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–March 10, 2006

Mar 05 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Toward the Cusp

Needs and Reasons

Until you can understand

the need for the learning

the reason for the teaching

will remain obscure

But that won’t stop

can’t deflect

the teacher

from trying

to teach

One day

some day

in the future

probably more distant

than would be ideal

maybe the lesson

will be learned

and we can move on

to other things

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–February 20, 2009

Mar 05 2009

Pony Party: Fun with Charts

By Youffraita in Art

more music charts

Pony Party is an Open Thread. Please do not rec the party.

charts, LOL, pony party
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Mar 04 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Assembling the Fragments

Introspection

When you build yourself

out of fragments

assembling carefully

that which is good

shedding the bad

like a winter coat

deciding what fits

what is detritus

left suspended

in the wake

of growing up

why would there be

any desire

to conceal

the finished product?

Do I live my life

to minimize your

discomfort

with the idea

of regeneration

rebirth

renaissance

or do I live my life

to improve

our common existence?

Is there really

a choice there?

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–February 13, 2009

Mar 03 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

A Thousand Cuts

Sharing Health

In a fair world

a just world

a world balanced

for sharing

rather than greed

we wouldn’t need

to worry

that someone else

getting healthy

would harm us

We wouldn’t seek

to capture

the value of their health

fearing that it would

diminish our own benefit

When can we arrive

in that place?

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–February 6, 2009

Mar 02 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Life Storm

Rift

How strange

that such a small

easily stated

.

difference

.

between us

could open

such a vast

.

.

.

chasm

.

.

.

of distrust

mystery

confusion

misunderstanding

even hatred

How sad

that the variation

occurring so early

in our lives

could affect

so much

for so long

Can such a breach

ever be healed?

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–January 30, 2009

Mar 01 2009

Café Discovery: Meditative Exercise

By Robyn in Art, Teaching

Part of the teaching experience unfortunately consists of the grading experiences. I have a veritable shitload of it to do. And I will spend most of the day pursuing that craft.

During the past week, as I struggled through a schedule of 8 overly spaced out classes which required my presence at school 12 hours a day for 4 days, with gaps filled with two programs I presented on transsexualism, a lecture on the Birth of Science and a faculty meeting, at the end of each day I took a little bit of time for some meditative time, working on a series of graphics.

They are shared inside. Clicking on one of them will open a larger version.

Feel free to add anything in the way of music, words or graphics.

Feb 27 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Badge

Measuring Time

The tick tick tick of time

registers the seconds and minutes

hours and days

years and decades

of lost youth

years spent unfrugally

squandered

for the benefit of others

more important than me

or so it seemed

Poe’s pendulum swings

measuring the beat beat beat

of my heart

as time ebbs away

compressing my future

and the hope

of hearing Freedom’s ring

signally the day

when being gay will be okay

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–January 23, 2009

Feb 26 2009

Muse in the Morning

By Robyn in Art, Community, Poetry

Muse in the Morning

Beauty?

Ugliness

Not a pretty girl

nor an attractive woman

just a hope

of being

a handsome

old lady

I have been

resigned to this

for decades

But quality lies

in the heart

and the mind

not on the skin

Your proclamation

of love and support

for transfolk

rings as hollow

as hollow can be

Ugly lives down deep

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–January 16, 2009

Feb 26 2009

Pony Party: Radical Vixen

By Turing Test in Art

From Sunday’s NYT:

These days Ms. Fonda is revisiting an earlier incarnation, Broadway actress, and next month she will star in “33 Variations,” written and directed by Moisés Kaufman, almost 50 years (46 if you want to be fussy) after she last appeared on Broadway, in “Strange Interlude” with Geraldine Page.

snip

In 2005 Ms. Fonda resumed her movie career with “Monster-in-Law,” in which, starring with Jennifer Lopez, she played with great relish a nightmare version of Jane Fonda: a TV star who has burned through four husbands, gone bonkers and can’t accept that she’s getting old. It was slammed by the critics but was nevertheless a popular success and introduced her to a new generation of fans.

“That movie was the single smartest move I ever made,” she says now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02…

Pony Party is an Open Thread. Please do not rec the party.