The Boy Writer As Seen Through Paint, Portrait, & Pen

The Boy Writer As Seen Through Paint, Portrait, & Pen

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Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting,

Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,

And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.

--Walt Whitman, 1860

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh, I'm bored - there must be something else I want to be doing. In this way boredom acts as an initiator of originality bu pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

--Hugh Prather, 1970

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow.

I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.

--Brian Andreas

There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach . . . To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just one thing in life, would kill off large parts of me. Rather, I recognize that I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

--Hugh Prather, 1970

The Poet of Comrades for the 21st century

***UPDATE***

I recently found out that I am going to be published again. On a whim, I submitted one of my poems to a poetry contest on poetry.com. I received a letter recently saying that I am a semi-finalist in the competition and that my poem is going to be included in a compilation book of poetry to be published this fall. Additionally, I have been invited to attend the Inernational Society of Poet's summer convention and symposium, August 13-15, in Philadelphia. To read the poem I submitted to the competition, check out my poetry page here. The title of the poem is "Heartland". Feedback is greatly welcomed and appreciated.