Posts Tagged Musings
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston A couple of things this column will work with. Number one, it is Poetry Month. Another fact, not quite as unnoticed, and worthy is that the U.S. Civil War began 150 years in our past. Years ago I was challenged to produce a poem from letters produced from a lockbox in a Muscatine...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Mary Tryon, a New York poet, submitted to a Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest some years back, but did not win. As chairman, I would select good poetry like Mary’s, write about it, and send my opinion and the poem(s) to the poet. Mary began to write poems in 2007. I don’t rec...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I don’t like surprises! Why? Because most surprises are not pleasant. I hope you can agree with me. That does not mean I am a planner, either. February does provide one space for a surprise that is expected, (is that a surprise?) – Valentines Day. Over the years, going ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I am most happy with things familiar to me. Does that ring a bell? the newest cycles in our nation and its reflection in the world, send an unreal portion of our jobs away. We get the doors slammed on customary activities and on things we consider “advancement.” The ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Here we are again poised for what is for most of us a joyous period of the year. In Judeo-Christian background are never to be forgotten events of long ago, celebrated as best we can in houses that hold forth for the religions and in our homes. We, as people, accept much of th...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The business of writing seeks more polish from those of us doing it as prose or poetry for the public. We need to search for memorable or clever lines. Words to enhance meaning in ideas we try to make known. Tried and true for poetry, at least, is to record, paper or tape, the...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston As the summer season moves away from us, and schools open even in the heat of the early fall, I am thinking about some beauty here – and gone as seasons show themselves. Some of you had plenty of water for the floral displays you plant and supervise. Some of our friends and n...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston ....the major hurdle for a poem and its creator poet is publication. Get that poem or book of poems on paper and, more important, get it “out there.” What makes spring come? Depends on whom you ask; the calendar and established dates on it; the solar inferences. Whatever,...
