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Vargus Pike currently resides just outside the city limits of Portland Oregon, with his lovely wife, two not so wicked stepchildren and his beloved cat, Poster Nutbag.

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How did you decide which month to write about to represent each season?

Vargus Pike Thank you for the question. Blame April, she is the cruelest month after all. The first book was written as a personal challenge for national poetry m…moreThank you for the question. Blame April, she is the cruelest month after all. The first book was written as a personal challenge for national poetry month which is in April. I felt I was not writing often enough and so set the challenge to write everyday. When the month ended not only did I have thirty complete poems of a quality that surprised me I also discovered to my delight that there were thematic elements and an ebb and flow of ideas that emerged from each days circumstance and mood. Some days the poem took over and wrote itself. Other days they were dragged painfully from my head much like Zeus giving birth to Athena. This in turn compelled me to try again in a different month to see if the seasons also were a factor. From there I just counted. Four seasons, three months to each season, starting in April; July, October and January naturally emerge. July is almost done being written. I have five more days to compose. Then the goal is to complete the series next January.
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Vargus Pike For this Song series of books I cannot afford writers block. Part of the challenge is I have to finish a poem a day for the whole month. Some days it …moreFor this Song series of books I cannot afford writers block. Part of the challenge is I have to finish a poem a day for the whole month. Some days it takes longer than I would like to get going but that is where discipline and experience come in. Poems are everywhere you look. I pick an object or a feeling or a color whether I want to write about it or not then I write and fuss and work until it feels finished.(less)

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July Fifteenth

So cool and fresh the air you bring to us
just when poor sufferers need it the most.
Hot sweltering days of one hundred plus
when both body and mind turn into toast.
In your chill, millions comfortably rest
as long as the grid can provide power.
Those in your presence believe they are blessed
bask in your glory for many an hour.
Some think this worship is ugly to view
like the Luddites who hate technology. Read more of this blog post »

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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