Author Archives: rdavies

“With seventy staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs”–RD (above on the ‘Left Bank’ at the Impressionists show, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2018) (another geezer, Hemingway commemorative stamp, … Continue reading →

“Common sense is very uncommon.” –Horace Greeley “Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” –Victor Hugo “Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.” –H.W. Shaw

“A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Some examples above…

I have definitely had and still have a ‘dreamy’, romantic, idealized, lofty view and approach that has supported, nourished, and motivated me most of my near 70 years. A vision and preference for what used to be called ‘finer things’. … Continue reading →

Shades of the opening overhead letterboxed shot of Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia

and earphone music in crowds to siphon off what is often just meaningless babble shouting and screaming at individuals, invading their private consciousness. Now if only, specialized glasses could screen out all the polluting visual advertising we encounter everywhere we … Continue reading →

with Harvard, memories of Timothy Leary’s 1960-63 LSD work at Harvard comes to mind. Ground-breaking dope research now at Harvard? No, Tim was first, 6 decades ago.

“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” –Erasmus

always busy apologizing and exonerating the past to govern responsibly and significantly in the present and for the future. Whenever there’s a real crisis on, he is doing something irrelevant which never helps here-and-now Canadians. His reign has been an … Continue reading →

by Richard Davies, 2019 The title catches the reader’s attention, is engaging and makes the reader curious. The look of the poem is likewise engaging. The reader is pleased by its first-look structure to the eye. Long continuous poems don’t … Continue reading →