Wednesday, December 22, 2021

1078. The Storm - Mary Oliver

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Now through the white orchard my little dog romps, breaking the new snow with wild feet. Running here running there, excited, hard...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

1077. From the book: Moments of Rising Mist

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(Sung Landscape Poetry [CE 960-1127] translated by Amitendranath Tagore)) Mei Yao-ch’en - A Walk on Lu-shan Mountain My longing for wil...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

1076. Dream Song 14 - John Berryman

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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreove...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

1075. Incantation - Czeslaw Milosz

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Translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulp...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

1074. Singing Everything - Joy Harjo

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Once there were songs for everything, Songs for planting, for growing, for harvesting, For eating, getting drunk, falling asleep, For sunris...
Wednesday, September 08, 2021

1073. Famous - Naomi Shihab Nye

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The river is famous to the fish.  The loud voice is famous to silence, which knew it would inherit the earth before anybody said so. The ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

1072. Theme For English B - Langston Hughes

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The instructor said,   Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you — Then, it will be true. I wonder ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

1071. Morning Birds - Tomas Tranströmer

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  Translated from the Swedish by Gunnar Harding and Frederic Will I wake my car. Its windshield is covered with pollen. I put on my sungl...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

1070. From The Journals Of The Frog Prince - Susan Mitchell

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  In March I dreamed of mud, sheets of mud over the ballroom chairs and table. rainbow slicks of mud under the throne. In April I saw mud...

1069. Bring Me The Sunflower - Eugenio Montale

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Translated from the Italian by George Kay Bring me the sunflower for me to transplant to my own ground burnt by the spray of sea, and sho...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

1068. The Promise We Live By - Simon J. Ortiz

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On the West Coast, days of rainstorm wrestle the Coast Range, their wet fury driven landward. We never quite know what the sky promises, and...

1067. Autobiographia Literaria - Frank O'Hara

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  When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls and I hated games, animals were not fr...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

1066. Ode To Thaliarchus - Horace

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Translated from the Latin by David Ferry See Mount Soracte shining in the snow. See how the laboring overladen trees Can scarcely bear their...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

1065. Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam - Dan Vera

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I will tell you why she rarely ventured from her house. It happened like this: One day she took the train to Boston, made her way to the dar...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

1064. Such Grace - James Laughlin

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is in her step     such grace goes in the movement of her arms & shoulders as she walks such grace in how she holds her head     ...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

1063. For Earth's Grandsons - Joy Harjo

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Stand tall, no matter your heights, how dark your skin Your spirit is all colors within You are made of the finest woven light From the irid...
Sunday, April 04, 2021

1062. Becoming Human - Simon J. Ortiz

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We are given permission by the responsibility we accept and carry out. Nothing more, nothing less                              People are no...

1061. Museum Piece - Richard Wilbur

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The good gray guardians of art Patrol the halls on spongy shoes Impartially protetive though Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.  Here dozes one...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

1060. This Is Not A Poem - Joyce Carol Oates

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in which the poet discovers delicate white-parched bones of a small creature on a Great Lake shore or the desiccated remains of cruder roadk...
Monday, January 04, 2021

1059. Abbott's Lagoon - Robert Hass

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. The first thing that is apt to raise your eyes Above the dove-grey and silvery thickets Of lupine and coyote bush and artichoke thistle...