http://cnylink.com/blogs Herm Card is the City Eagle's roving street reporter and photographer as well as the Eagle's Poetry Editor. *************************************** He is an English teacher, poet, educational consultant, and motivational speaker. He has been a college baseball player and coach, military officer, tournament squash player and NCAA baseball umpire. He is also a Museum Educator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and co-editor of the academic journal, "The English Record." ******************************* Submit your poetry to Herm at eaglepoetry@aol.com en-us 60 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:01:56 -0700 City Muse When I taught my eighth grade English classes about the poetry of Bob Dylan’s lyrics, I always included a cultural literacy unit on the 1960s. Someone always asked if I had been http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250460116 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1250460116 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:10:26 -0700 City Muse “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues On November 21, 1965, Bob Dylan walked onto the stage at Loew’s http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1248383426 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1248383426 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:24:05 -0700 City Muse Syracuse City School District coaches, administrators, teachers, school safety officers and others met on the Burnet Park softball diamonds on Friday to compete in the 4th annual http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245371045 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1245371045 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:31:15 -0700 City Muse Poets and Musicians Wanted! The annual Strathmore area "Art on the Porches" Celebration will be taking place on June 20th in the Ruskin Avenue (off Summit) area of http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1244561475 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1244561475 Fri, 01 May 2009 08:20:17 -0700 City Muse I realize that picking a favorite poem can border on the impossible. But, it allows us to search through our memories as we might search through the boxes we discover as we http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1241191217 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1241191217 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:23:38 -0700 City Muse On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s 20th century color barrier making his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In so doing, he opened the doors for http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1239823418 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1239823418 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:29:26 -0700 City Muse We are celebrating National Poetry Month, created by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Although we should celebrate poetry all year, this month provides us an opportunity http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1238858966 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1238858966 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:34:54 -0700 City Muse Almost every day, my friend Kevin and I walk our dogs, Molly and Cooper, in Onondaga Park. During the time it takes us to travel the 2 ½ miles, we do our best to solve as many http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1238855694 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1238855694 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:46:54 -0700 City Muse April is National Poetry Month and April 30 is "Poem in Your Pocket Day," a day to carry a favorite poem to share with anyone you might want. Like last year, we want you http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1237909614 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1237909614 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:30:34 -0700 City Muse In the past two weeks I have had a 100 pound python draped across my shoulders and had a 4 foot long monitor lizard cling to me like a long lost relative. I have pushed a pig http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1237534234 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1237534234 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:55:00 -0800 City Muse So said the Roman poet Horace a bit over 2000 years ago. And so it holds today that many of our best teachers are poets – if not de facto poets, certainly poets at heart and http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1234752900 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1234752900 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:31:16 -0800 City Muse One of the great things about poetry is that there are plenty of poets. One of the problems is that we are not always aware they are among us. There is too often isolation – a http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1234751476 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1234751476 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:53:43 -0800 City Muse Less experienced poets tend to say too much. I suppose they may feel that if you are going to write a poem, you should really write a poem. The problem with this is wordiness. http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1227711223 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1227711223 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:24:47 -0700 City Muse The beauty of found poetry is that you merely have to find it -- you don’t have to write it. Found poetry requires you to merely find a piece of poetic prose and insert the http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1224343487 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1224343487 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:34:12 -0700 City Muse It is only logical that in order to take the best photos of the New York State Fair’s entire midway one must be on a very high position. Logic becomes obvious as one enters the http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1220556852 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1220556852 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:30:59 -0700 City Muse We often struggle to write poetry. It is not easy, but it is also not the struggle that life can be. Trying to meld the two sometimes results in the purest and strongest and most http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1218123059 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1218123059 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:26:23 -0700 City Muse Recently we have focused on publishing poetry. This week we’ll take a look at another approach, one involving local poet Lenore (Lenny) Decerce. Decerce is a graduate of http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1216927583 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1216927583 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:05:03 -0700 City Muse A lot of people have said, “I don’t like poetry because I don’t get it.” The same thing could be said about a lot of things, and I must plead guilty to having said it http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1215713103 http://cnylink.com/blogs/hcard/view_blog.php?blog_id=1215713103