Sunday, October 18, 2026

1223. Elevation - Charles Baudelaire

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T ranslated from the French by Timothy Donnelly Over gutters and over parking lots,     over rooftops, fountains, cloud banks and the bay, b...
Tuesday, October 13, 2026

1222. Lines To Myself - Seamus Heaney

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In poetry I wish you would Avoid the lilting platitude. Give us poems humped and strong, Laced tight with thongs of song, Poems that explode...
Sunday, September 27, 2026

1221. e. e. cummings - who are you,little i

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 who are you little i (five or six years old) peermg from some high windows; at the gold of november sunset (and feeling:that if day has to ...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

1220. Lilacs - Katherine Garrison Chapin

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When I met my lover   Lilacs were new, He said, “I brought some lilacs,   Lilacs for you.” I took them eagerly   Laughing in surprise. He sa...
Saturday, September 05, 2026

1219. And Then There Is That Incredible Moment - Kate Light

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  when you realize what you’re reading, what’s being revealed to you, how it is not what you expected, what you thought you were reading, wh...
Friday, August 28, 2026

1218. Transformations - Thomas Hardy

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 Portion of this yew Is a man my grandsire knew, Bosomed here at its foot: This branch may be his wife, A ruddy human life Now turned to a g...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

1217. Sometimes - Evelyn Waugh

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  Sometimes I feel the past and the  future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
Saturday, August 15, 2026

1216. Quotes from “Thoreau and the Art of Life” Roderick MacIver

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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. The pleasure we...
Sunday, August 02, 2026

1215. Foreigner - Imtiaz Dharker

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I was born a foreigner. I carried on from there to become a foreigner everywhere I went, even in the place planted with my relatives,  six-f...
Monday, July 27, 2026

1214. Ripeness - Jane Hirshfield

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 Ripeness is what fails away with ease. Not only the heavy apple, the pear,  but also the dried brown strands of autumn iris from their core...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

1213. Poetry - Pablo Neruda

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 T ranslated by Alistair Reid And it was at that age…Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from win...
Friday, July 03, 2026

1212. “ i thank You God for most this amazing” - e. e. cummings

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  i thank You God for most this amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which ...