Monday, November 16, 2020

1056. From Here To There - David Wagoner

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. Though you can see in the distance, outlined precisely With speechless clarity, the place you must go, The problem remains Judging how...
Wednesday, November 04, 2020

1055. On Taking the Measure of Your Book - Fran Claggett-Holland

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For Michael Franco there must be a way to enter your poetry the way your words turn into meaning after meaning into the depths of memo...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

1054. Franz Marc's Blue Horses - Mary Oliver

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  Franz Marc’s Blue Horses - Mary Oliver I step into the painting of the four blue horses.  I am not even surprised that I can do this. ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

1053. The Panther - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Translated by Robert Bly Jardin des Plantes, Paris From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted it no longer sees anything...
Friday, September 18, 2020

1052. For Those Who Would Govern - Joy Harjo

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  For Those Who Would Govern - Joy Harjo ( A member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation ( I know this is not a poem but......) First question: Ca...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

1051. Singing Everything - Joy Harjo (A member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation)

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  Singing Everything - Joy Harjo ( A member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation ) Once there were songs for everything, Songs for planting, for g...
Friday, August 14, 2020

1050. For The Conjunction Of Two Planets - Adrienne Rich

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. We smile at astrological hopes And leave the sky to expert men Who do not reckon horoscopes But painfully extend their ken In mathema...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

1049. Books And Thoughts - Walter Rinder

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. books and thoughts clean the mind of restrictions built by time through the pages we discover all the feelings held from each other w...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

1048. Arrivals - David Whyte

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. Imagine the confines of a long grey corridor just before immigration at Washington Dulles airport. Imagine two Ethiopian women amid...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

1047. Then And Now - James Laughlin

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. The Rain is speaking it pelts against the windows and on the roof in the night it makes thousands of little wo...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

1046. Breaking Camp - David Wagoner

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. Having spent a hard-earned sleep, you must break camp in the mountains At the break of day, pulling up stakes and packing, Scatteri...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

1045. Oh, Lovely Rock - Robinson Jeffers

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( How nice to find a poem written long ago that we have lived.) We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of Ventana Creek, up   the ...

1044. Sometimes - Hermann Hesse

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Translated by Robert Bly Sometimes, when a bird cries out, Or the wind sweeps through the tree, Or a dog howls in a far off farm, ...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

1043. Live the Question - Rainer Maria Rilke

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I want to ask you, as clearly as I can,  to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themsel...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

1042. At The Zoo - Linda Pastan

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at the Children’s Zoo The children holding the python all along its ten-foot mottled body are like the blind men with the elephant—...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

1041. One Of A Kind (abridged) - Walter Rinder

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. you  a wonderful addition to life for there is no one else like you you are important believe it  . . . know it allow your...
Friday, November 22, 2019

1040. David - Ishion Hutchinson

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. You marveled at the vein in the marble. The moment’s slight pulse when you approached. His blood murmured when you neared, so I be...
Sunday, November 03, 2019

1039. A Parenthesis - James Laughlin

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. (This poet defaces his couplets with parentheses) [a word from the Greek coming from para (beside) + en (in) + tithenai (to put) ...
Thursday, October 03, 2019

1038. The Opening of Eyes - David Whyte

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After R. S. Thomas That day I saw beneath dark clouds, the passing light over the water and I heard the voice of the world speak ...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

1037. Missing the Boat - Naomi Shihab-Nye

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. It is not so much that the boat passed  and you failed to notice it. It is more like the boat stopping directly outside your bedr...