tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.comments2023-09-30T14:24:49.616-05:00EVERYTHING'S JAKEJohn Guzlowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comBlogger752125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-16730820924593835582016-11-27T08:57:47.798-05:002016-11-27T08:57:47.798-05:00Great story. I also write lines on pieces of paper...Great story. I also write lines on pieces of paper all over the house. Sometimes I'll find an old napkin in a book I was reading, which ended up being used as bookmark, and it will have verses written on it that I forgot I wrote.Joseph Ellison Brockwayhttps://www.twitter.com/josephebrockwaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-7095925711087132832016-11-13T09:03:21.054-05:002016-11-13T09:03:21.054-05:00Oh, I love this wonderful poem. The scope and voi...Oh, I love this wonderful poem. The scope and voice remind me of Whitman! Wonderful!Sandra Kolankiewiz: Autismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07668640630796994512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-25257740614741896492016-07-29T19:17:01.723-05:002016-07-29T19:17:01.723-05:00Bagi, there are 40,000 different Christian sects. ...Bagi, there are 40,000 different Christian sects. Each has its own sense of what God is. I'm okay with that. But folks need to accept these many Gods. John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-79325574290774435612016-06-17T15:00:34.401-05:002016-06-17T15:00:34.401-05:00I really believe in God that he is only the One, t...I really believe in God that he is only the One, thanks for this space mister, from indonesiabagi pengalamanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00064183411085459586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-9775709209292447982015-12-19T08:33:02.438-05:002015-12-19T08:33:02.438-05:00Death was a wind and a flood.
It came in the ni...Death was a wind and a flood. <br /><br />It came in the night and it came in the light. <br /><br />It broke the children and their parents, the mothers who smiled and the fathers who worked in the fields. <br /><br />Death broke them and buried them and scattered dust over their graves and told a story about death and the road it takes to heaven. <br /><br />The dead listened and wrote the stories down and kept them close to their hearts. <br /><br />They knew a story is hope.John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-72022324266485857122015-06-16T18:34:20.620-05:002015-06-16T18:34:20.620-05:00Thank you, John. This is exactly what I needed to...Thank you, John. This is exactly what I needed to hear exactly when I most needed to hear it. Jayne Martinhttp://injaynesworld.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-20610785914276600042015-01-06T11:56:29.538-05:002015-01-06T11:56:29.538-05:00I liked him, his lovely idiosyncratic economy.I liked him, his lovely idiosyncratic economy.Urkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086121300436012432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-51512525638589738602015-01-06T11:54:50.686-05:002015-01-06T11:54:50.686-05:00It was a different time, when writers like Hemingw...It was a different time, when writers like Hemingway, Steinbeck and others were seen as men of action and interpreters of the common man. It was anti-eloquence, a swing back from belles-lettres to reportage.<br /><br />“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.” William FaulknerUrkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086121300436012432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-54499324875281969902015-01-06T11:47:22.628-05:002015-01-06T11:47:22.628-05:00I've never agreed with Valery's statement,...I've never agreed with Valery's statement, but that's just me. I don't agree with what a lot of writers think. I believe you revise until you get it right. Death is the only deadline. I'm still working on poems begun over 25 years ago. Thought takes time--"Thunder and lightning take time to arrive." NietzscheUrkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086121300436012432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-91520618287306709182015-01-06T11:43:51.334-05:002015-01-06T11:43:51.334-05:00Thoreau makes such eminent sense to me--"I li...Thoreau makes such eminent sense to me--"I like a wide margin to my life"--but it's a gospel most men are incapable of conceiving, much less carrying into action.Urkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086121300436012432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-22223201576264434422014-11-27T17:16:21.159-05:002014-11-27T17:16:21.159-05:00Funny. My handwriting is a mystery to me.Funny. My handwriting is a mystery to me.John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-80085027706087546452014-11-27T17:14:20.851-05:002014-11-27T17:14:20.851-05:00Maybe the lines were all brilliant and your interp...Maybe the lines were all brilliant and your interpretation of your handwriting is the problem?.lillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677403441029336950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-15369921307836879532014-11-19T07:51:36.678-05:002014-11-19T07:51:36.678-05:00And you know summer is too much of a distant memor...And you know summer is too much of a distant memory when you look out over an overgrown (but no less charming) wilderness in the Winter months. Alexhttp://lawnmowerwizard.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-47995538861976571822014-11-01T13:43:07.609-05:002014-11-01T13:43:07.609-05:00John, is a committed poet, or at least he should b...John, is a committed poet, or at least he should be, as anybody who dares write poetry for a dwindling audience needs to have his head examined.Urkathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086121300436012432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-66371326504600714152014-07-16T19:43:02.831-05:002014-07-16T19:43:02.831-05:00Internet and connectivity are wondrous - I came to...Internet and connectivity are wondrous - I came to your post via your tweet about it. Love your tweets too, by the way.Nancynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-72058168749171717632014-06-18T20:41:42.269-05:002014-06-18T20:41:42.269-05:00Maybe God put them here to fascinate children. An...Maybe God put them here to fascinate children. And to give adults something to ponder. She probably laughs that some of us see evil in something that has been gone for millions of years.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15988669304613053304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-62236194239824206062014-06-18T09:36:07.895-05:002014-06-18T09:36:07.895-05:00I once asked a similar question to many religious ...I once asked a similar question to many religious folks...a blend of answers ensued...the most interesting responses were: God put them here to fertilize the soil, humans and dinosaurs lived together and they were not as big as science wants us to believe, (i.e.. paleontologist piece together old bones of any animal to make it look bigger) and, they were here before the garden of eden, and god wiped them out to make way for his creations.<br /><br />I left scratching my head at the absurdity of all claims, and continued to edge closer and closer to a Universalist/Transcendentalist/Diest approach to why we are here, and dinosaurs are gone. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09479494904193620992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-67791237346311368362014-06-18T08:42:33.805-05:002014-06-18T08:42:33.805-05:00Grace, yes, the universe makes sense in ways that ...Grace, yes, the universe makes sense in ways that the way we try to explain it doesn't.John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-2714881392398049462014-06-18T08:33:38.588-05:002014-06-18T08:33:38.588-05:00Well John, I think God probably tried his hand at ...Well John, I think God probably tried his hand at creating lots of things over time, and I think God designed everything to work in harmony. Some animals had long necks to reach the tops of trees so that others could live off what was on the lower branches. Creation is quite a Master Plan when you think about it, every little thing has a purpose and a job to do, if only we humans would leave well alone. :-)<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16049296254817649077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-3768467480226399662014-06-18T08:26:25.839-05:002014-06-18T08:26:25.839-05:00And probably the weirdest critters are humans.
...And probably the weirdest critters are humans. <br /><br />And not necessarily in the way they look, but in the way they think.<br /><br />I've heard dinosaurs explained as the work of the devil meant to get us believing in evolution, the spawn of the devil!John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-40123238135888946222014-06-18T07:57:26.461-05:002014-06-18T07:57:26.461-05:00you only think elephants and whales, and birds, an...you only think elephants and whales, and birds, and rhinoceros are less "weird" than dinosaurs because you are used to them. try looking at them with unaccustomed eyes ;-)magdalenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09637886497625514554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-64223785615363695062014-04-30T09:10:31.548-05:002014-04-30T09:10:31.548-05:00PeteA, thanks for reading the post. I'm sorry...PeteA, thanks for reading the post. I'm sorry to hear about your mom.<br /><br />Uncle Charlie never got out of that hospice alive, but after a few days of terminal agitation he found some peace. His leaving us was quiet.<br /><br />John Guzlowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052735138993479204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-30571892534679902042014-04-30T09:04:18.847-05:002014-04-30T09:04:18.847-05:00Heard the "terminal agitation" phrase fo...Heard the "terminal agitation" phrase for the first time a couple of days ago with my mom at a hospice house. I came across this blog on a google search. It could not be a more accurate description of the symptoms we are currently seeing. Thank you (from a fellow trumpet player).<br />-Pete Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427915694385942762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-90694674636809711202013-12-20T22:55:09.721-05:002013-12-20T22:55:09.721-05:00You're right, John. It's a silly question....You're right, John. It's a silly question. It assumes too much: that all novels have been read, that there is some sort of objective criteria for evaluating them... Yes, apples and oranges, my friend. Apples and oranges.<br /><br />SaraSarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12288304881726395774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30385557.post-70935673273560613382013-11-18T19:14:16.273-05:002013-11-18T19:14:16.273-05:00Hey John... your poem blew me away...
Hey John... your poem blew me away...<br />brucenoreply@blogger.com