Kurt Brindley's Blog, page 101
March 30, 2015
Novelist, Poet, and now Playright: A Guest Author Post by Paul Xylinides
It’s hard to say where a poem and its ensuing conversation will lead. It’s even harder to say where it will eventually end. To understand how it is we are about to arrive at the fortunate post-poem, post-conversational point to which we are headed, I will simply refer you to here instead of wasting precious time and space with a reenactment in paraphrase.
With that out of the way, I can now get us to the point to where we wish to be by pleasurably presenting to you the publication of this humble site’s very first play, penned by our good friend and literary phenom Paul Xylinides, author of THE WILD HORSES OF HIROSHIMA.
Tweeting in the Immortal Nineteenth Century
A Play in One Act
by Paul Xylinides
(Dedicated to K. Brindley)
Dramatis Personae
William Wordsworth: Poet
Dorothy Wordsworth: Sister
Scene
The Wordsworth Lake District cottage
Time
The Nineteenth Century
ACT I
SCENE I
Sound effects: Tweet, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet
Dorothy: Get out of bed, Will! You have poems to write and sheep to cuddle!
William: Groan. You are the only sheep/I wish to baa baa/But, listen, “Tweet, tweet/Tweet, tweet,” methinks it tells/Of a golden age to come again.
Dorothy: My Word, ’tis but a bird, dish up some rhyme with your porridge and share a bit with that dusty bird – look it shakes off the night it spent in our roof again. Time to put on a new shingle, Will.
William: Must get ready for Coleridge, sister mine. The Lake air does him much good. Mayhap he leaves his pipe in the city.
Dorothy: He smokes too much of that Chinese poison. I suspect there lies the reason for his not finishing his Kubla Khan.
William: Yes, he came up short somewhere, although it is his story that the mailman ringing on his door disturbed him. Hark! The bird tweets again!
Dorothy: And Byron, ought of him?
William: I fear they shot his pigeon. Perhaps the mail coach will have something.
Dorothy: Whatever it is, don’t light the fire with it, brother mine. We are short of paper, you know.
William: Ay, the back of it will serve for future eyes.
Dorothy: You think then it will be an improvement on our last Golden Age?
William: Without a doubt, sister mine. Give it a century or two.
Dorothy: They will be reading you beyond that, brother mine.
William: Baa!
Sound effects: Tweet, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet
(Blackout)
(End of Play)
Filed under: Writing Tagged: acting, classical poetry, conversations, humor, Paul Xylinides, playright, plays, poetry, poets, scriptwriting, tweets, twitter, William Wordsworth, writing
The Little Floating Clouds
The little floating clouds
On the horizon, just above
Bring not rainstorms, dark and loud
Only whispered wisps of love
Filed under: Photography, Poetry Tagged: clouds, farms, horizon, landscapes, photography, poetry, rhymes, rhyming poetry, storms, whispers, wisps, word play, writing
March 29, 2015
Snuggle-N-Snoozzze
March 28, 2015
What We Think We Want
what we think we want
our hopes, our passions, our prayers
dreams for which we dare
~
could be but bars gilded thin
of a cage we’re trapped within
Filed under: Photography, Poetry Tagged: dreams, haiku, hopes, Japanese Poetics, metaphors, passion, photography, poetry, prayers, snow, spring, tanka, writing
March 27, 2015
The Happily Disgruntled Writer reflects on censorship as well as the odd comparison of blue cheese to creative writing…
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Filed under: Humor Tagged: authors, books, censorship, Clean Reader, comics, current events, drawing, Happily Disgruntled Writer, humor, profanity, reading, satire, technology, writing
Caption This! no.2 – Winner
There. This last one should connect us to the Mother Ship.
Well, that was a blast.
Many of your captions drew forth legit lols out of me.
However, congratulations are in order to Photon Smith for submitting the most legit caption of them all as is evidenced by all the votes his* received!
Please take the time to visit with Photon Smith at his website and to personally offer him* your congratulations…and then stick around a bit to check out what he’s got going on there. Looks pretty cool!
Thanks to all for the fun and laughter…
*non-gender specific
Filed under: Photography Tagged: caption contests, captions, contests, photography, Photon Smith, writing
Nebula Cultus no.4
storm clouds beckon bold
its winded fury stills all
peace is found within
Filed under: Photography, 俳句 Tagged: cloud worship, clouds, haiku, landscapes, nature, nature photography, nebula cultus, photography, poetry, storms, wind, writing, 俳句
March 26, 2015
It Looks Like Someone Just Might Get a FIRE HD Tablet after all…
Well, the giveaway period for THE SEA TRIALS OF AN UNFORTUNATE SAILOR has ended and I am happy to announce that we gave away more than enough for us to hold the drawing for the Amazon FIRE HD Tablet…provided everyone who grabbed a free copy of the book writes a review and we have fifty (50) valid contestants entered into the drawing by 11:59PM (EDT), Saturday, April 4, 2015, that is.
Piece of cake, right?
Right?
Anyway, that will be the last Amazon Giveaway I will be able to do for a while, as I have ended my exclusivity with Amazon and from now will be selling my books on just about all major outlets, via Smashwords.
It’s nice to get back to Smashwords. I really dig the laid-back vibe they have. I like how they’ve positioned themselves as the David to Amazon’s Goliath. Besides, it seems the glory days for Indie Authors and Amazon are over and it is going to take all venues to find one’s market. We’ll see…
As you can tell, I reblogged my favorite Indie Author, Paul Xylinides’ review of The Sea Trials. I continue to encourage you to visit Paul’s sites – paulxylinides.com and theliteraryreader.com> – and to check out his writings. I’m certain you won’t be disappointed.
Thanks, Friends!
S.H.I.T. – Sure Happy It’s Thursday!
Originally posted on thefuturepoet:
Review of Kurt Brindley’s The Sea Trials of an Unfortunate Sailor
Paul Xylinides
Before I begin this review, let me first recommend to anyone whom it persuades to read The Sea Trials of an Unfortunate Sailor, that after doing so they further benefit themselves by looking again at their copy of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor that I shall, however, quote from extensively. Kurt Brindley’s accomplishment should come into even greater focus when looked at through the lens of the nineteenth century classic novel.
Anyone who has ever experienced the injustice of being condemned by those who characterize their sensitivities in ways fundamentally at odds with their true identity will respond deeply to the travails of Kurt Brindley”s protagonist in The Sea Trials of an Unfortunate Sailor. From a tellingly different perspective the same fate befalls Melville’s hero. One cannot help but feel that there is a lot that is…
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Filed under: Reviews Tagged: Amazon Fire HD Tablet, book reviews, books, bullying, contests, Don't Ask Don't Tell, hate crimes, literary fiction, novels, Paul Xylinides, Smashwords, stereotypes, suspense novels, theliteraryreader
Caption This! no.2
Your caption could be here
So I was getting ready to post this bleak photo with a haiku about how in order to be found we must first be lost or something lame like that…but then it dawned on me (I’ve always liked that saying…the visual of a thought of mine rising in my brain like the morning sun)…
Hey, this would be the perfect picture for another one of those caption contest thingies.
Am I right or am I right?!
Yes, of course I’m right…
Right?
Anyway…
Same rules apply as the last time:
Post your caption in the comments.
Caption with the most “Likes” wins.
Winning caption will be posted tomorrow sometime (probably in the A.M.-ish timeframe) and will look a little something like this.
Have fun!
Don’t forget to “Like” the caption(s) you like best!
Filed under: Photography Tagged: buildings, caption contests, communications, connectivity, despair, desperation, haiku, human interaction, Internet, life, photography, poetry, satellite TV, technology
March 24, 2015
The Capital of Care
Reporting live from the National Institutes of Health
Filed under: Health Tagged: cancer, GVHD, health, leukemia, lung disease, National Institutes of Health, NIH, photography
