Saturday, July 14, 2018

1025. The Old Poets of China - Mary Oliver

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Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why t...
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

1024. A Small Eternity - Robert Penn Warren

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. The time comes when you count the names—whether dim or flaming in the head’s dark, or whether In stone cut, time-crumbling or moss-g...
Monday, April 30, 2018

1023. A Cup Of Coffee - Gene Fowler

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From: A Solo In Tom-Toms - Gene Fowler Such a small and homely and peasant-like thing seems a cup of coffee. Still, some of us kn...
Friday, March 30, 2018

1022. Harvey Ellis - Harvey Ellis

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Harvey Ellis - Harvey Ellis my ancestors surround me like walls of a canyon quiet stone hard their ideas drift over me like b...
Friday, March 16, 2018

1021. To The Son - Jorge Luis Borges

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Translated from the Spanish by Alastair Reid It was not I who begot you. It was the dead— my father, and his father, and their forebe...
Monday, January 29, 2018

1020. The Bed by the Window - Robinson Jeffers

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. I chose the bed downstairs by the sea-window for a good death-bed When we built the house, it is ready waiting. Unused unless by so...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

1019. Figment at the Beginning of Something. . . - David Watts

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My son brings me a stone and asks which star it fell from, he is serious and so I must be careful, even though I know he will place...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

1018. Poema - Maria Teresa Horta

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Poema by Maria Teresa Horta Translated from the Portuguese by Lesley Saunders I let him come. He sneaks on tiptoe right up to my ...
Monday, November 06, 2017

1017. Marks - Linda Pastan

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. My husband gives me an A for lasts nights’s supper an incomplete for my ironing, a B plus in bed. My son says I am average, a...
Friday, October 27, 2017

1016. Epitaph For "Poet's Tomb" - Shuntaro Tankawa

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“I, infinite silence, will grant you words” [God Contemplates Man] 　　 —Jules Supervielle When I was born I was nameless like a wa...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

1015. To John Keats (1795 - 1821) -Jorge Luis Borges

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Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler From the beginning to your early death a terrible beauty lay in wait for you as good...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

1014. Low Tide At St Andrews - Emily Pauline Johnson

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(New Brunswick) The long red flats stretch open to the sky, Breathing their moisture on the August air. The seaweeds cling with fle...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

1013. Emily Dickinson - Linda Pastan

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. We think of her hidden in a white dress among the folded linens and sachets of well-kept cupboards, or just out of sight sending ...
Monday, July 10, 2017

1012. Nikos Kazantzakis - The Mind Of Man

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From: The Saviors of God. translated by Kimon Friar The mind of man can perceive appearances only  and never the essence of things ...
Monday, May 29, 2017

1011. Sunset Oien - Shuntaro Tanikawa

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Sometimes I reread poems I wrote long ago I don't ask textbook questions like "what was the author feeling when he wrote this?...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

1010. Good Bones - Maggie Smith

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Good Bones by Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

1009. And - Shuntarō Tanikawa

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Translated from the Japanese by William I Elliott and Kazuo Kawamure When summer comes the cicadas sing again. Fireworks freeze in my...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

1008. What Is Lost - Jorge Luis Borges

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Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler I wonder whee my life is, the one that could have been and never was, the daring one or ...

1007. First Sight - Philip Larkin

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. Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but a sunless glare. Newl...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

1006. And Now You - Kate Miller

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From The Observances , Kate Miller’s debut collection Carcanet, 2015. And now you exist outside the royal room of blood you occupie...