Inward Bound Poetry

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Monday, July 31, 2006

177. 3 old men at separate tables - Charles Bukowski

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. I am one of them. how did we get here? where are our ladies? what happened to our lives and years? this appears to be a calm Sunday evenin...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

176. to lean back into it - Charles Bukowski

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like in a chair the color of the sun as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as ...
Friday, July 28, 2006

175. ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE - Stephen Dunn

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. He climbed toward the blinding light and when his eyes adjusted he looked down and could see his fellow prisoners captivated by shadows; e...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

174. When The Watchman Saw The Light - C. P. Cavafy

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. Winter and summer the watchman sat on the roof of the palace of the sons of Atreus and looked out. Now he tells the joyful news. He saw a ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

173. THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA - Helen Bevington

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. The Princess slept uneasily Upon a small offending pea And twenty mattresses that were Between the vegetable and her. Her royal person, ra...
Monday, July 24, 2006

172. IF YOU COME - Anonymous, Irish

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. If you come at all Come only at night, Tread ever so warily And please don't scare me. Under the door You'll find the key And I...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

171. After Making Love - Stephen Dunn

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. No one should ask the other, "What were you thinking?" No one, that is, who doesn't want to hear about the past and i...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

170. NIGHT VISION - Sonnet L'Abbé

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. His wife dreams of silent flight. On a drive on narrow roads outside the city she points to the red horizon, where the sun, a hydrogen zep...
Friday, July 21, 2006

169. THE VOICE YOU HEAR WHEN YOU READ SILENTLY - Thomas Lux

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THE VOICE YOU HEAR WHEN YOU READ SILENTLY is not silent, it is a speaking- out-loud voice in your head; it is spoken, a voice is saying it a...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

168. AN HORATIAN NOTION- Thomas Lux

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. The thing gets made, gets built, and you're the slave who rolls the log beneath the block, then another, then pushes the block, then p...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

167. Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry - Stephen Dunn

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. Relax. This won't last long. Or if it does, or if the lines make you sleepy or bored, give in to sleep, turn on the T.V., deal the car...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006

166. THE GOOD NEWS - Thich Nhat Hanh

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An Excerpt from Call Me by My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh The Good News They don't publish the good news. The good news is published b...
Monday, July 17, 2006

165. BEDTIME - Denise Levertov

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. We are a meadow where the bees hum, mind and body are almost one as the fire snaps in the stove and our eyes close, and mouth to mouth, th...
Saturday, July 15, 2006

164. AT THE SMITHVILLE METHODIST CHURCH - Stephen Dunn

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. It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week, but when she came home with the "Jesus Saves" button, we knew what art was u...
Friday, July 14, 2006

163. Hands - Robinson Jeffers

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. Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near Tassajara The vault of rock is painted with hands, A multitude of hands in the twilight, a cloud of ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

162. CONSOLATION - Billy Collins

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. How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How much better to cru...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

161. OFFERING - Sonnet L'Abbé

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. The vocabulary of desire is incomplete, a word is missing. My tongue searches for your body in language and finds you in every word. I tho...
Monday, July 10, 2006

160. PARABOLA - A. D. Hope

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. Year after year the princess lies asleep Until the hundred years foretold are done, Easily drawing her enchanted breath. Caught on the mon...
Saturday, July 08, 2006

159. FREDERICK DOUGLASS - Robert Hayden

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Robert Hayden - Frederick Douglass When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

158. ARS POETICA - Philip Appleman

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. Think of it, nine thousand breakfasts together, and now coffee again for the first time: what a virginal movement it is, this silvering to...
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