Saturday, February 24, 2024

1144. Addressed Humorously to Tu Fu - Li Po (705-762 A.D.)

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    Translated by Shigeyoshi Obata Here! is this you on the top of Fan-ko Moutain, Wearing a huge hat in the noonday sun? How thin, how ...
Friday, February 23, 2024

1143. A Game Of Chess - Gwen Harwood

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To John Brodie Nightfall: the town’s chromatic nocturne wakes dark brilliance on the river; colours drift and tremble as enormous shadow...
Monday, February 05, 2024

1142. On The Birth Of A Son - Su Shih (Su Tung-Po) (1036-1101 A.D.) -

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Translated by Arther Waley Families when a child is born Hope it will turn out intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked by whole...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

1141. Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt - Jane Hirshfield

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The dog, dead for years, keeps coming back in the dream. We look at each other there with the old joy. It was always her gift to bring me in...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

1140. Arithmetic - Carl Sandburg

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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons  in and out of your head. Arithmetic tells you how many you lose or win  if you know ho...
Monday, January 01, 2024

1139. The Song Of The Lark - David Whyte

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The song begins and the eyes are lifted but the sickle points toward the ground, its downward curve forgotten in the song she hears, whi...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

1138. When The Shoe Fits - Chuang Tzu -

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Translated by Thomas Merto n Ch’ui the draftsman Could draw more perfect circles freehand Than with a compass. His fingers brought fo...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

1137. This Only - Czesław Milosz

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A valley and above it forests in autumn colors. A voyager arrives, a map led him here. Or perhaps memory. Once, long ago, in the sun, Wh...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

1136. What Is The Opposite Of A Prince? - Richard Wilber

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What is the opposite of a Prince?  A frog must be the answer, since, As all good fairy stories tell, When some witch says a magic spell,...
Monday, November 20, 2023

1135. Party Preparations - Posidippus (About 273 BC)

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      Translated from the Greek by Barton Raffe l   ( nothing changes ) We’ll be four, each with his woman. Eight’s too many for one keg...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

1134. Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde

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An omnibus across the bridge    Crawls like a yellow butterfly,   And, here and there, a passer-by Shows like a little restless midge B...

1133. Meeting At Night - Robert Browning

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 The grey sea and the long black land, And the yellow half-moon large and low,  And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets fr...
Friday, October 27, 2023

1132. Fountains And Statues - John Tagliabue

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FOUNTAINS AND STATUES AND AMAZED      TOURISTS BETWEEN NOTRE DAME                  AND THE ORANGERIE To have had the heart of admiratio...

1131. On Himself - Heliodora (About 100 B.C.)

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Translated from the Greek by Burton Raffel I grew on Tyre. I was born in Syria, And I came out of Eucrates, I, Meleager, who taught my muse ...
Monday, October 16, 2023

1130. Poem - Frank O'Hara

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Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing  but hailing hits yo...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

1129. Ripeness - Jane Hirshfied

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Ripeness is what falls away with ease. Not only the heavy apple, the pear, but also the dried brown strands of autumn iris from their c...
Saturday, September 09, 2023

1128. Everything Is Waiting For You - David Whyte

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After Derek Mahon Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witne...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

1127. The Night, The Porch - Mark Strand

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To stare at nothing is to learn by heart What all of us will be swept into, and baring oneself To the wind is feeling the ungraspable some...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

1126. My First Use of Google Bard

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Question to google Bard (Answered in 5 seconds) What famous poets have written poems about what famous art? "W.H. Auden wrote the po...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

1125. The Battles of the Pen and the Scissors - Shem Tov Ardutiel (pen name Santob De Carrion)

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Excerpt From The Battles of the Pen and the Scissors (CE 1345) by Shem Tov Ardutiel (pen name Santob De Carrion) Writer, you hold a flame in...