Tag Archives: Asphodel That Greeny Flower

Art, for When Life Is at Its Worst

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2026

In Lapus Lazuli, Yeats shows us how art offers us hope even at the darkest times. He wrote this on the eve of World War II.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", "Lapus Lazuli", Fine Balance, hope and despair, Rohinton Mistry, W. H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, William Carlos Williams | Leave a comment

Finding God in Silence

By Robin Bates | Published: September 23, 2023

Poet Jennifer Michael gave a talk on finding God through poetry, featuring Berry, Hirshfield, Oliver, and others.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Door", "I Go among the Trees", "Praying", "Silence", "Sometimes", "Whatever is Foreseen in Joy", Asphodel, Genesis, Jane Hirshfield, Jennifer Michael, Mary Oliver, Meditation, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wendell Berry, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth | Comments closed

Dying Miserably for Lack of Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2009

Today I want to thank Chris Kalb, whose artwork on this blog was installed yesterday. And also to thank Discovering Oz, my son and his wife’s marketing company, which gave me the idea for setting up this website and blog and then helped me carry it out. In the illustration you see before you, the […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged American pragmatism, Bible King James version, Crafty Reader, Psalm 23, Robert Scholes, William Carlos Williams | Comments closed

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