Hyde Park's Corner

Merwin reflects on some challenges and life factors influencing our understandings and expressions of identity. First, in "To Waiting...

Those headlines and feature stories confront us more often. We don't want to hear it, we don't. We certainly don't want to bel...

I've been reading different poets lately, but found nothing I'm moved to share here. So I picked Present Company (2007) from my bo...

[A short essay from my Beyond Life's Boxes series.] I couldn’t take you with me. And you didn’t want to come. Remember? That same un...

James, brother of Jesus : "The tongue is a fire...a restless evil...which defiles our entire body and sets on fire the course of our...

Our behavior and identity are in part a function of our genetic legacy, yes, but also the way we are conditioned and schooled, what we lear...

For much of my career, I worked as a tax lawyer and a corporate tax executive. If there was anything I understood, it was the complexity o...

Following on from my last post, I've added these additional pull-quotes from various of my writings (which have also found their way to...

Have we lost our way somewhere on the quest for the greater good, on that path paved with good intentions? Have we lost our footing, our vi...

Oh, one more, just one more, from this cummings selected poetry collection (well, until the next one). #82   true lovers in each happening...

From e e cummings,   five of 100 Selected Poems (a birthday gift from son, Adam.) You do have to keep working with cummings' poetry, ...

There should always be hope--and can be. Hope can rest on you with promise and peace. It can be as natural as the breath you take, and accom...

If you've believed in better understandings and answers (better thinking), new beginnings and endings (cycles and changes), causes and e...

  On September 23rd researchers at CERN, Europe's main physics laboratory, announced that subatomic particles called neutrinos ...

Today, somehow, my heart returns to this poem offered us by the 14th-century Sufi poet Hafiz. When in a certain place with the ways of lo...

                                           Steve Jobs has passed from us. The loss is both personal and ...

        Love this sign. Just love it.

You may have heard of the mysterious "dark matter" and "dark energy" of the cosmos. Or maybe not--after all, it's ...