Thursday, September 17, 2020

Journal of a Naked Poet XXV - You Want Names?

 You want names? I'll give you names.


Eileen Hanes Traxler, Donald Clyde Traxler, Charles Foltz, Frank and Marjorie Maciejewski, St. Rose of Lima, Central School, Nora "Nano" Dunne Hanes, Hamilton School, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, St. Francis of Assissi, St. Augustine, Dan Opincar, Mr. Weber, Adamski, Glenn Miller, Tchaikovski, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, The Platters, Elvis, Fr. Smith, Jim Lorentz, George "Jerry" Martinson, Bob Padberg, Mike Milligan, Dave Johnson, Jimmy Green, Alejandro Borja, Pat Rusconi, José Alfredo Jiménez, Gabriela Mistral, St. Teresa of Ávila,  Dr. Theodore "Ted" Bardacke, Joe Labonville, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, L. L. Zamenhof, Angela Merino, Alberta Galli, Cheryl Crofts, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Baal Shem Tov, Juliette Savary, Kirsten Landsverk, Sri Aurobindo, Ramakrishna, Mereta Saltrup, Dani Touarin, Mitch Tyler, Ilse "Elsa" Johanna Operschall, Jane Campbell Flood, Don Flood, Sara "Sally" McCune, Jack Hirsh, Marianne Seaver, P. Deborah Lorentz, Orion Culver, Ramana Maharishi, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Shlomo Carlebach, John (Lubavitcher) Blank, Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Herman Hesse, Gandhi,Yeshua ben Yoseph, Moses de León, Federico García Lorca, Paul Twitchell, Adi Shankara, Lalla (Lalleshvari, Lal Ded) of Kashmir, Gerald Gardner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Bergson, William Buehler Seabrook, Persis Kirmse, Maria de Naglowska, Michael Sullivan, Marina Abramovic, Karen Finley, Yakov Leib HaKohain (L. G. Corey).


Relatives, friends, influences, objects of research, indiscriminately. Many have been left out. It's enough to make your head spin.






Text and image Copyright © 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler aka Nagna Chidaananda.