#87: Virtual Care Package + The Alipore Post Poetry Month
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To Waiting by W.S. Merwin
You spend so much of your time
expecting to become
someone else
always someone
who will be different
someone to whom a moment
whatever moment it may be
at last has come
and who has been
met and transformed
into no longer being you
and so has forgotten you
meanwhile in your life
you hardly notice
the world around you
lights changing
sirens dying along the buildings
your eyes intent
on a sight you do not see yet
not yet there
as long as you
are only yourself
with whom as you
recall you were
never happy
to be left alone for long
Other poems I fell in love with this week:
"Make use of the things around you.
This light rain
Outside the window, for one.
This cigarette between my fingers,
These feet on the couch.
The faint sound of rock-and-roll,
The red Ferrari in my head.
The woman bumping
Drunkenly around in the kitchen . . .
Put it all in,
Make use." -Sunday Night by Raymond Carver "I love the stillness of the wood:
I love the music of the rill:
I love to couch in pensive mood
Upon some silent hill." -from Solitude by Lewis Carroll "My poems go places
but send no postcards––I have no idea
what they are doing. They do
whatever they want to.
I give them curfews
but they wake me in the middle
of the night, they interrupt meetings
and other situations where I have no time
for them. They hang on me
when I am on the phone.
They do not keep my secrets
and sometimes they lie." -from The Other Poet by Ellie Schoenfeld
"I don't care how God-damn smart
these guys are: I'm bored.
It’s been raining like hell all day long
and there’s nothing to do."
-At the California Institute of Technology by Richard Brautigan
Pre-birthday vibes by Lucas Levitan
Things to watch:
SXSW 2020 Shorts (all of these are AMAZING!)
Do Lectures (all their talks are free)
Wes Anderson's Social Distancing
Things to read:
How to stop eating half your money (easy recipes!) How the Pandemic will end Tips on living in confinement by an astronaut Mental Health at home during Coronavirus Amor fati (Love of Fate)
A complete guide to coronavirus charts: Be informed, not terrified
Things to do:
Mac DeMarco launches new web series Eternal Family
Pair Up + Care Buddies CounterPrint + Mike Perry's colouring books
The 4-hour Life with Tim Ferris
#QuarantineArtClub (I've been doing the assignments on @ro.doodles)
Things to hear:
A Hand Washing Meditation for the Covid-19 Era
Happy Birthday in the Styles of 10 Classical Composers (because it's my birthday!)
Dear Ale, a podcast about pandemic love + poetry
Hurry Slowly: What if you’re not broken?
Podcasts to get you through lockdown
Messy Ness Chic's Keep Calm & Stay Happy playlist
Quarantine Art projects:
Lucas Levitan's #invademyhome series
#isolateandcreate (family portraits) and #lendahand2020 (acts of kindness) #QuarantineCrazies by Pranita Kocharekar #CoronaRetreat by Rocio Egio Parizad D's Adventures of Bob
Write with me: The Alipore Post Poetry Month
I invite you to join me for a month of writing poems this April as part of #thealiporepostpoetrymonth.
After doing the official #napowrimo (National Poetry Writing Month) challenge for the last three years, I wanted to create my own set of prompts incorporating themes and emotions that are on my mind during these tough times, and to open the challenge up to the virtual world. Let’s stay at home together and learn where poetry comes from, and find inspiration in each other's words.
To participate, write a poem based on the day’s assigned prompt (full list above), and share it on Instagram with the hashtag #thealiporepostpoetrymonth. I’ll be reading and publishing the best poems of the day on www.thealiporepost.com every night at 10pm IST.
The challenge starts tomorrow, April 1st (which also happens to be my birthday) and will go on till April 30th, 11.59pm. Let's write together!
Stay inspired! Also, Happy Birthday (in advance) to me :)
-Rohini