Be like a Bell, Who’s Beauty is Awakened by a Fierce Blow

“Come, come!

Be like a bell

whose beauty is awakened

by a fierce blow!”

==by Tony Crispino

Heart Cut From A Wild Dog

I hold back screams
Stupidified in a fog of words

“Fuck words, Fuck fears, Fuck bars”
I scream.

I breathe the sound from water against a log
And spit and pump like the heart cut from a wild dog

I hate and spin with dark powered rage
As I weep in sorrow a tiny boy’s tears

 © 2014 Martin H. Wilde

Minnesota Men’s Conference The Gift of Grandiosity | Robert Bly

Robert Bly explores the virtue of exalted energy in a wide-ranging talk that touches upon William Blake, Hafez, and readings and discussion of his own poems. Recorded at the 2002 Minnesota Men’s Conference.

via Minnesota Men’s Conference The Gift of Grandiosity | Robert Bly.

Minnesota Men’s Conference Searching for the Father | Robert Bly

Robert Bly takes us along on his search for his own father, through wild, joyful, mythic and contemplative poems—discussing the grief upon his death and their relationship ever since, and the ‘young hawk’ that still lives inside himself. Recorded at the 1995 Minnesota Men’s Conference.

via Minnesota Men’s Conference Searching for the Father | Robert Bly.