Friday, March 08, 2019

1029. Swift Things Are Beautiful - Elizabeth Coatsworth

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. Swift things are beautiful: Swallows and deer, And lightning that falls Bright-veined and clear, Rivers and meteors, Wind in ...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

1028. For The Traveler - John O'Donohue

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. Every time you leave home, another road takes you into a world you were never in. New strangers on other paths await. new place...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

1027. Song For The First People - David Wagoner

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. When you learned that men were coming, you changed into rocks. Into fish and birds, into flowers and rivers in despair of us. The t...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

1026. Photograph - Cynthia Rylant

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From: Something Permanent  Photo by Walker Evans He washed his feet for the picture, even his knees, and wondered about that ma...
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 ...