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Genesis & Evolution of A Blog/Blogger
Genesis & Evolution of a Blogger Part 2
Two Poems For Charles ( Hank ) Bukowski - Here's To Charles Bukowski - & Poems For Sale
MY POETRY:NIGHT OF A THOUSAND HOURS Parts One Two & Three
BAUDELAIRE POEM " GET DRUNK ! "
Tales From Café Apollinaire - MOBS OF MARAUDING LOBSTERS
ROBERT BURNS' " MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN "
ROBERT BURNS " MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN "
ROBERT BURNS " A MAN's A MAN FOR A' THAT " " SUCH A PARCEL OF ROGUES " & "Scots, wha hae.
POEM FOR ROBERT BURNS : BLOOD FEUD
Dreaming Love - Part One
Visions of the Subterranean in the Run-down Rooming-house of the Soul
Café Apollinaire: Refugees of Bohemia
Tales From Café Apollinaire- Erik Satie & Eight Foot Long Baguettes
BEAT POETRY: ALLEN GINSBERG -HOWL ETC.
Howling From The Rooftops -For Allen Ginsberg
More Of The Dharma- Kerouac,Burroughs etc.
Dharma Buming 1, Burroughs , Kerouac , Warhol
The Buddha & The Blue Horses
Aphorisms & Haiku II : Stonefish & Tigerlilies
Inspiring Quotes Victor Hugo, Jean Paul Sartre. Edvard Munch
My POETRY: AS THE FOG ROLLS IN
My Poetry: " All the Poets are Gone : From "An Epic For Our Time " : A REQUIEM "
My Poetry: Two Variations on Hope And Tragedy
ROBERT LOWELL " FOR THE UNION DEAD "
Favorite Books and Authors
Links To Websites Literary & Art
Jalaluddin Rumi,poet and mystic.
Photos of My garden
BEAT POETRY & PROSE- JACK KEROUAC,BURROUGHS, BUKOWSKI
Japanese Garden: Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion , Canandaigua,NY
ART OF VINCENT VAN GOGH - POST- IMPRESSIONISM
ART: POST-IMPRESSIONISM Definitions and Characterizations
ART: EXPRESSIONISM
ART: EXPRESSIONISM DEFINED with links
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910 ) Artistic Genius of The Imagination & The Fantastic
Photos From The ROM :Royal Ontario Museum
Lao Wat- Buddhist Temple West Henrietta New York- August 2008
LITERATURE: FRANZ KAFKA & SURREALISM
William Blake Poet & Mystic
Chief Seattle :The Web Of Being And The Ghost Dance
ART: GUSTAV KLIMT & NIGHT OF A THOUSAND HOURS IV : TWENTY THOUSAND NIGHTS
SURREALISM OF Max Ernst
ART: EXCERPTS FROM ANDRE BRETON 'S MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM
MORE DADA SURREALIST MADNESS OF MAX ERNST & MARCEL DUCHAMP
YVES TANGUY - Punk DADA SURREALISM & INVASION OF THE BIOMORPHS
ART: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
FILM: FRIDA KAHLO FILM REVIEW
Film: LUIS BUNUEL SURREALIST
Art Of Goya & Michael Sowa
ART: HANS ARP & My Poem DANSE MACABRE
DADA & HANS (JEAN ARP) & HUGO BALL
ART: GEORGE GROSZ SATIRIST ART & POLITICS & SOCIAL COMMENTARY
EXCERPTS FROM: THE BANQUET YEARS:The Arts in France - Guillaume Apollinaire etc. By Roger Shattuck
Pablo Neruda - " I'LL Explain Some Things " & " Ode To A Book "
Federico Garcia Lorca ( 1898 -1936 ): " Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias "
MUSIC: VICTO JARA - CHILEAN / FOLK /POLITICAL
POETRY & POLITICS from Robert Burns to Robert Lowell to Ginsberg to Ty Gray EL
ART & MUSIC :JAMES ENSOR & THE MUSIC OF " THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS "
Poetry: W. B.Yeats, Pablo Neruda , Dylan Thomas ,
ART: JAMES ENSOR's ART - EXPRESSIONISM
SURREALISM POETRY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE : HUNTING HORNS AND CROCUSES
SURREALISM POETRY : HANS ARP (1887-1966 ) The Domestic Stones
ART: JOSEPH CUSINAMO VIVID SURREALISM ZAZIE
SURREALISM & DADA HANS ARP # 2 HANS ARP DADA TO SURREALISM
INNER CHILD
ART: SURREALISM, RENE MAGRITTE, CHAGALL & DALI
SURREALISM & THE FANTASTIC : MARC CHAGALL
SURREALISM : COMTE LAUTREMONT: SONGS OF MALADOR
SURREALISM: ANDRE BRETON ON DADA & SURREALISM
SURREALISM: YVES TANGUY: PUNK SURREALIST
SURREALISM: JOAN MIRO & MAX ERNST
ART & FILM ANIMATION : RYAN LARKIN
ART: DADA & WAR
MUSIC & POETRY :" ODE TO JOY " Friedrich Schiller's Poem
Film Review MISSING by COSTAS GAVRAS 1982
Film Review: Brian Yuzna Bride of Re-Animator
FILM REVIEW: " DAGON " Stuart Gordon / " Society " Brian Yuzna
Film Review:John Carpenter THEY LIVE- PARANOIA, CONSPIRACY,Satire
Film Review: Pulse/ KAIRO Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Film: FAMILY VALUES SERIAL MOM
Film : INGMAR BERGMAN ON DEATH , DREAMS, & DELUSIONS
"HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS" FILM REVIEW
Films: DAVID LYNCH & SURREALISM
FILMS: DARIO ARGENTO " SUSPIRIA " TO " B" HORROR " SLITHER " &" CANNIBALS :THE MUSICAL"
Films: DAVID CRONENBERG'S " VIDEODROME " etc.
Films:LINDSAY ANDERSON'S SUBVERSIVE FILM " IF..." (1968)
Film: IMMORTEL (AD VITAM) SURREALISTIC FILM
John Cusack's WAR, INC.
Films : Johnny Depp
Film: WIM WENDERS' "WINGS OF DESIRE"
Film: CEMETERY MAN AKA DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE
Film: DRACULA THE SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE
FILM : Zhang Yimou's " HERO " & " RAN" BY AKIRA KUROSAWA
& SERGIO LEONE & CLINT EASWOOD
FILM REVIEW: V FOR VENDETTA
KURT WEILL & BERTOLT BRECHT - Alabama Song, Mack The Knife Three Penny Opera etc.
Terry Jacks " Seasons in the Sun " VERSUS Jacques Brel's " Le Moribond "
MORE MUSIC: Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Dead Can Dance,Arcade Fire, Dave Mathews
MUSIC: GOTH & DEAD CAN DANCE: THE CARNIVAL IS OVER
MUSIC:DEAD CAN DANCE " AMERICAN DREAMING " & ROBERT LOWELL " SKUNK HOUR "
JACQUES BREL - lyrics Sons of , the Middle Class, If We Only Have Love , Next, Amsterdam
MUSIC : JAZZ
MUSIC: CLASSICAL
For Walt Whitman
An Epic For Our Time
An Epic For Our Time- A Requiem - Part 2
TALES FROM Café APOLLINAIRE: Variations On Ditilled Dreams - Elijah's Judgement
TALES FROM Café APOLLINAIRE: VARIATIONS ON DISTILLED DREAMS - Tower of Babel
Tales From Café Apollinaire - Boisterous Walt Whitman
Tales From Café Apollinaire: Variations on Distilled Dreams - A SEASON IN HELL
Tales From Café Apollinaire - Epilogue
Barbed - Wire Encircled World
Waiting In The Snow
All The Poets Are Gone : A Requiem For Our Tme Part One
AN EPIC FOR OUR TIME: X I Dreaming Cafe Apollinaire
KADDISH VARIATIONS
ART EXHIBIT
Dreaming Love ...Part Two
Listen To This...No. 1 & No. 2
My POETRY 'As If...'
The Masks We Wear
Being a Child of Raging Fire in the Shadow of Towering Smokestacks
Traffic Jam Inside the Jumble Jar
Wounded Heart : New York 9/11
No End to Beginnings & Endings
Inside The Jumble Jar : Sharing Our Dreams
Ah Fuck Art...
Pearls of Wisdom from Headless Buddhas
WISDOM IN A CLUBHOUSE SANDWICH
Homage to H.P. Lovecraft
SPHERES: More Teachings of the Ancient Sage
MY POETRY:VISIONS OF THE ANCIENT SAGE ...DISTORTED
MY POETRY: PHONY PROPHETS & THE ANCIENT SAGE
MY POEMS: The Ancient Sage Having Visions of Brahma
MY POEMS :SOUNDINGS : MORE IMAGES FROM WITHIN THE JUMBLE JAR
AMAZED by Gordon Coombes

Poetry, Art, Music And Film

  "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
Pablo Picasso

against the good
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by goya


 Arcade Fire -City With No Children in it

RENE MAGRITTE
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Magician

Intro to Cafe Apollinaire

a poem is an exploding grenade 

held in the palm of your hand 

a poem is a Molotov- cocktail

tossed into your living room 

upsetting your evening routine -

Guillaume Apollinaire- bandaged head
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wounded in WWI

 Café Apollinaire - Refugees of Bohemia - 


At the end of the night 

After leaving Café Apollinaire 

poets & artists stroll arm in arm 

along the shadowy streets of Paris 

in the twinkling yellowish glow of gas-lights 

inebriated by heady discussions 

& wine & absinthe- 

K.D. Lang Performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

This site contains my poetry
& the art & music which I enjoy

"Poetry & art should be as detailed
& moving as
a laundry list - no less
& no more & yet make one laugh "

-ancient sage

Every night and every morn

Some to misery are born.

Every morn and every night

Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,

Some are born to endless night.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Original poetry
Musings on Poetry, Art,
Music & Films
at Left Panel

VISIONS OF EXPERIENCE
A Video I put Together
Nick Cave-O'Chidren
from the album Abattoir Blues and
The Lyre Of Orpheus


- SHE SAID -

by Gordon Coombes

don't go beyond your station

she said

as the train stopped -

after all these years

she said

finally you are silent -

read only comic books

she said

while watching television -

never rely on anyone

she said

as she walked away -

in the end we are alone

she said

as she hung up the phone -


- COFFEE & MUFFINS:


HAVE A MUFFIN SHE SAYS -

by Gordon Coombes

the cold rain pounds

against the window

and she says have a muffin -

the brown leaves are blown

to the ground

and she says have a muffin -

the darkness surrounds us

our island of light fading

and she says have a muffin -

the shadows of a thousand crows

pass over

and she says have a muffin -

the universe is winding down

as the sun goes NOVA

and she says have a muffin -

the love we had for each other is dying

just a convenient lie to get by

and she says have a muffin -

death squads patrol the city streets

the madmen have taken over

and she says have a muffin -

empires rise and fall

millions on the tv screen are dying

and she says have a muffin -

thousands roam the streets homeless

and she says have a muffin -

another friend fails in their ambition

as she strikes them off her guest list

and she says have a muffin -

take solace in your success

forget about the rest she says

as she bites into another hot buttered muffin -

a thousand mushroom clouds boiling

above the earth

and she says have a muffin -

missiles rain down upon us

and she says have a muffin -

planes crash into skyscrapers of steel & glass exploding

while she says have a muffin -

friends are rungs on the ladder to success

ditch any who stand in your way she said

and offered her guests coffee and muffins -

And no tea & sympathy from me

she added -

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Food I eat daily: curried chicken & rice

Excerpts from my impossible epic

Tales From Cafe Apollinaire

At Café Apollinaire poets & artists

stoke the fires of Creativity

shift the gears of Creativity

pouring gasoline on the fires

of the Imagination igniting sparks

of Fantasy -

Café Apollinaire is a three ring circus

a side-show of freaks

a poet dining on metaphors

an artist being eaten by painted lions

bones stripped clean of flesh

by imagined dreamed vultures

escaped from brain-fevered induced nightmares

of a starving artist -

 

Lao Tzu
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NIGHT VISIONS

I

horses in the fog -

August 10, 2007

by gordon coombes


the silky red coated horse lowers his head

when the prophet approaches

though mere mortals take no notice -

II
-shade & water -

August 10,2007

by gordon coombes


in the sands & olive groves of sweet Arabia

where many who thirst find shade & water

in the sweet words of the prophet -







Leonard Cohen-Everybody Knows

Links to my websites & blogs

gord's poetry factory.com/

Amazed - INTRO
by Gordon Coombes

Amazed by monks meditating
in Nepal in the Himalayas
beneath the shadow of mount Fuji
in the shadow of Cape Smokey
in the mountains of Cape Breton
hanging out over the Atlantic Ocean
as the fog rolls in
as the chilling winds of winter
blow steadily for weeks on end
& the snow drifts curve like a wave about to crash
pushing up against the walls of the Monastery -

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- The Blank Slate -

August 10, 2007

By gordon coombes



So there seemed little hope

'til I found an empty page

pure & virginal

upon which to write

a blank slate waiting for inspiration

for strange flights of the imagination

finding an empty canvass waiting

for invisible brush strokes shading

light & dark colors & shadows

mysterious spaces left untouched

finding the perfect stone revealing

an object of desire

hidden within

melancholy trees birds taking wing

faces of pain & joy

beauty bursting through the uncarved stone

in the eye of the humbled artificer

words forced to take shape

as the poet's dreams will allow -

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October 5, 2007
by gordon coombes

- Lao Tsu -

Lao Tsu in the distance

walks across mountains

and into clouds

disappearing -

- sea of saffron -
by gordon coombes

sons of the Buddha

a sea of saffron robes

rising against

crashing waves of bullets -

- Crimson Lotus Blossoms -
by gordon coombes

My Buddhist friend

whom I call the Ancient Sage

says we are all in the middle of a storm

keep your composure

keep your seat

keep your mind focused

the lotus blossom opens

its delicate leaves

it captures moonlight

it captures a sweet breeze

it captures the shimmering crimson drops

of the sons of the Buddha -

William S. Burroughs
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Aphorisms & Haiku II:
Stonefish & Tiger-lilies
by Gordon Coombes

Free the guilty hang the innocent
Love your enemies hate your friends-

an elephant paces the floor
outside my room
knocks on the door-

Tulips sprout in the toilet bowl
paintings hang from trees
clouds drift through my head-

cars sitting idle at night
on these quiet streets
of what do they dream-

Her eyes were tiger-lilies
her face was a mirror
walking around inside her head
I discover it is a house of mirrors-

paddling through shimmering glass
canoeing across reflected blue skies
& drifting clouds-

On a sunny day there are tropical fish
swimming in the sky-

birds etched trapped in stone
dream of taking flight-

--Continued in list of poems---

Driving Nowhere
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yerka

Buddha Enlightenment Print
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