Sunday, May 26, 2024

1152. Sometimes - David Whyte

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Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones  in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed ...
Monday, May 13, 2024

1151. Writing A Resume - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh What’s needs to be done? Fill out the application and enclose th...
Friday, May 03, 2024

1150. On Living (Part 1) - Nazim Hikmet

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Translated from the Turkish by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness a squirr...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

1149. Cucumber - Paul Reps

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Monday, April 01, 2024

1148. On A Portrait Of Two Beauties - Ho Xuan Huong (1592- 1788)

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Translated from the Vietnamese by John Balaban On A Portrait Of Two Beauties How old are these two anyway? Big and little sister, equa...
Friday, March 22, 2024

1147. All Night - Zi Ye (Tzu Yeh) (3rd BCE)

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Translated by Arthur Waley All night I could not sleep because of the moonlight on my bed. I kept on hearing a voice calling: Out of No...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

1146. Half a Double Sonnet - Mary Jo Salter

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For Ben Their ordeal over, now the only trouble was conveying somehow to a boy of three that for a week or two he’d be seeing double. ...
Saturday, March 09, 2024

1145. Grenimi AI - Winged Icarus

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  " Wow! I asked t he Gemini AI to write a poem about the fall of Icarus and this is what I got. " On fragile wings, ambition soa...
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...