Saturday, March 19, 2016

990. An Idea - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak An idea came to me for a rhyme? a poem? Well, fine — I say ...
Monday, December 21, 2015

989. Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit - Wallace Stevens

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. If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the rooms and on the stair, Let him move as the sunlight moves on the ...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

988. The Lay Of The Trilobite - May Kendall

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Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: The Lay of the Trilobite by May Kendall A Victorian satire on evolutionary t...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

987. The Hinds - Kathleen Jamie

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Carol Rumens's poem of the week in The Guardian Each week Carol Rumens picks a poem to discuss. Written amid the ‘tremendous energy...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

986. Halfway Down - Chard Diniord

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. Halfway down: the sight of a doe through the trees in the meadow. I stopped to stare at her staring at me. The silence arced betw...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

985. Our Story - William Stafford

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. Remind me again—together we trace our strange journey, find each other, come on laughing. Some time we’ll cross where life ends...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

984. Some Say - Maureen N. McLane

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Some say a host of horsemen, a horizon of ships under sail is most beautiful & some say a mountain embraced by the clouds ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

983. A Tale Begins - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak Our ships are not yet back from Winnland. We still have to get o...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

982. It Was A Time - Stephen Dunn

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. Some of us just wanted to drop out, go far away from integrity’s demands. Others sought strange consultations with their almost van...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

981. Two Paintings by Gustav Klimt - Jorie Graham

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. Although what glitters          on the trees, row after perfect row,         is merely the injustice         of the world, ...
Sunday, May 03, 2015

980. The Little Ways That Encouarge Good Fortune

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. Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed:...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

979. A Tale Begun - Wislawa Szymborska

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. Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanag h The world is never ready for the birth of a child. Our ...

978. Most of the Warriors - James Kavanaugh

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. Most of the warriors I knew Have settled down to gardening, and the morning Times, Tired of stalking ghosts and the melody of s...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

977. The Voice - Thomas Hardy

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. Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who al...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

976. That Day - Denise Levertov

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. Across s lake in Switzerland, fifty years ago, light was jousting with long lances, fencing with     broadswords back and forth a...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

975. Presentiment - Rilke

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Translated from the German by Edward Snow I’m like a flag surrounded by distances. I can sense the coming winds, and have to live the...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

974. The Pope Recently - James Kavanaugh

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. The Pope recently   Took the Bible a step further And said that a man   should not look with lust     at his own wife. Edna M...
Saturday, November 08, 2014

973. The Laboratory - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Walter Whipple Did it all happen in the laboratory? Beneath one lamp by day and billions by night? Ar...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

972. Some Advice from a Mother to Her Married Son - Judith Viorst

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. The answer to do you love me isn't, I married you, didn't I? Or, Can't we discuss this after the ballgame is through? It...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

971. I Live My Life In Widening Circles - Rilke

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Translated by Edward Snow I live my life in widening circles that drift out over the things. I may not achieve the very last, but...