Wednesday, February 13, 2013

923. For Georgia - Lenore Horowitz

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(Georgia O'Keeffe)  From: (http://www.womencandoit.com/) 
Lines map your face,
 and eyes like blue stars 
set my compass
 to your no...
Monday, January 14, 2013

922. Break of Day - Jorge Luis Borges

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Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler In the deep night of the universe scarcely contradicted by the streetlamps a lost gust of win...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

921. Monticello - May Sarton

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 . This legendary house, this dear enchanted tomb, Once so supremely lived in, and for life designed, Will none of moldy death nor give i...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

920. Palais de Chaillot Inscriptions

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Translated by ? THE PASSERBY MUST DECIDE IF I AM TOMB OR TREASURE HOUSE ELOQUENT OR MUTE THE CHOICE IS YOURS MY FRIEND DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

919. Along the Way - Lenore Horowitz

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 From: (http://www.womencandoit.com/) Along the way,
 a moment shimmers into being, 
frames itself 
to image where you are.
 You see it ...
Sunday, December 09, 2012

918. Miracle Fair - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak (1 ) Commonplace miracle: that so many commonplace miracles happen. An ordinary miracle: in th...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

917. A Dream of Trees - Mary Oliver

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 . There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees, A quiet house, some green and modest acres A little way from every troubling town, A littl...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

916. Shadows - D. H. Lawrence

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And if tonight my soul may find her peace
 in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
 and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower 
the...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

915. Year's End - Jorge Luis Borge

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Translated from the Spanish by W. S. Merwin Neither the symbolic detail of a three instead of a two, nor that rough metaphor that hails one ...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

914. Toy Camera - Lenore Horowitz

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. If only life could be like that 
sometimes, just blurred at the edges,
 slightly out of focus,
 a tiny bit fogged,
 and those people ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

913. Now I Become Myself - May Sarton

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. Now I become myself. It’s taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people’s faces, Run madly, as if...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

912. From March 1979 - Tomas Tranströmer

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Tomas Tranströmer - From March 1979 Translated from the Swedish by Robin Robertson Sick of those who come with words, words but no langua...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

911. The Peace of Wild Things - Wendell Berry

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. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives m...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

910. A Maze Me - Naomi Shihab

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 . Life is a tangle of twisting paths. Some short. Some long. There are dead ends. And there are choices. And wrong turns, and detours, and...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

909. into the strenuous briefness - e.e. cummings

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 . into the strenuous briefness Life: handorgans and April darkness, friends i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow d...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

908. Look To This Day - Kalidasa

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(Sanskrit poet) Look to this day For it is the very life of life. In its brief course lie all The verities and realities of your existence: ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

907. Under One Small Star - Wislawa Szymborska

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Under One Small Star (1) Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh My apologies to chance for calling it necessit...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

906. Parallax - Lenore Horowitz

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 From: (http://www.womencandoit.com/) You never know 
What will change the world- 
a word lightly spoken,
 a touch from a stranger,
 a...
Saturday, September 01, 2012

905. Credo - Maxine Kumin

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. I believe in magic. I believe in the rights of animals to leap out of our skins as recorded in the Kiowa legend: Directly there was a bear...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

904. The Swan - Mary Oliver

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Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? 
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air - 
An armful of w...