Life could just as well be fiction. Perhaps it is. It is. But it is a play we must play out.

               

                Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson never met, although they could have, and each in their own “queer” ways having changed poetry forever—untrapped the possibilities of it. Would they have even liked each other? Whitman, the bold political revolutionary (though literature classes have forgotten that of him) who lamented “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don�...

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                I have long had a fascination with Emily Dickinson, partly because of our shared birthday. Emily was born December 10, 1830 and I was born December 10th exactly 150 years later. From a young age I also enjoyed writing poetry and I encountered Dickinson's poetry for the first time when I was in middle school--it was the poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" in a children's book illustrated with frogs. :) I can't remember when it was I realized she and I shared a birthday,...

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    There's an entire thread at tribe.net in which contributors post links to music that reminds them of Venus in Scorpio energy.  ;)  I often hear music, read books/poems/stories, or watch films that I find resonating with a particular astrological archetype (with Saturn or Neptune, for instance, or on one odd occasion even the 2nd/8th house axis).  So I thought it might be nice to begin a series here at the MetaQuizzical Blog called "Planetary Poetry." This is a very Neptunian way of gettin...
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