More "debris"

I've been going through my old file box of things I wrote in college during the 70's.  My Senior project was writing poetry and Dr. Dan Daniels was my advisor.    Some I read with embarrassment and others I think to myself,

"That's not bad!"

I itch to do some rewriting on them and then I think to myself, "Won't that violate the poem that was created when I was 22?"

  Of course a 54 year old brain is going to want to change it.  So I've decided that I will keep them intact and maybe write a companion poem to go with the original.  22 vs 54 and how I've changed or have I changed?

I found my dedication(?)  page today with the quotes I selected.  I forgot some of them.  But they still stir my soul.

"Good choice Barbara!"

"This has been a pleasant, pleasurable exercise leading to a greater sense of happiness."  

From the original play, "Edna".  Performed at Kansas W. in Salina, KS when I was in high school in the 70's.  It's my David quote and will always bring him to mind.

" Now more than ever it seems rich to die, to cease upon the midnight with no pain..."


from Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats.  I think of Survey of English Lit with Dr. Wroten and of Kris Brown and Mary Green.  It appealed to my "dramatic sense of life".


"I wasted time and now time doth waste me."
Richard II  Shakespeare


Ah Mr. Callison, the little theatre, and acting class.  He had me work on this passage and I have never forgotten it or what it meant to me.

"God dammit this is hell.  But I planned it, I sawed it, and I nailed it, and I'll live in it till it kills me."    Love Song: I and Thou  Alan Dugan


Modern American poetry with Dr. Dan!  Again all the ladies in the poetry classes.  We swooned and sighed.

Good memories and GOOD literature.  Good literature resounds through your whole body and being.  It builds your life up and makes it bearable.  It comforts you when life is too horrible to think about. It takes you places where the world is different from your own.  It lets you  escape.