Thursday, July 09, 2026

1213. Poetry - Pablo Neruda

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 T ranslated by Alistair Reid And it was at that age…Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from win...
Friday, July 03, 2026

1212. “ i thank You God for most this amazing” - e. e. cummings

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  i thank You God for most this amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which ...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

1211. Illusions - Jim Fadiman

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There are no ex-lovers, Only candles with wicks close-timed. Glowing in vast spaces Their light ones filled. There are no broken hearts, Onl...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

1210. The Two Of Us Together And Each Of Us Alone - Yehuda Amichai

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  Translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld         “The two of them together and each of them alone”           —from...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

1209. Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges

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  But after all writing poetry is nothing more  than a guided dream and now now advanced age has taught me to resign myself to being Borges.
Saturday, May 09, 2026

1208. As Seen At The Uffizi - Dan Brown -

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  An audience of shepherds  Looks on adoringly As Mary gently bounces The babe upon her knee. To Mary’s side stands Joseph. He isn’t looking...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

1207. Our Two Silences - Anna Swir

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  T ranslated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan Silence flows into me and out of me washing my past away. I am pure alrea...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

1206. A Call - Seamus Heaney

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“Hold on,” she said, “I’ll just run out and get him. The weather here’s so good, he took the chance To do a bit of weeding.” So I sa...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

1205. Thumbprint - Eve Merriam

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  On the pad of my thumb are whorls, whirls, wheels in a unique design: mine alone. What a treasure to own! My own flesh, my own feelings. N...
Monday, February 23, 2026

1204. Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wild

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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. Bi...
Monday, February 09, 2026

1203. Years Later - David Palmer Grenell

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In the dusty triangular attic a box of old school books. Inside, a worn volume of poems, a page turned down at the corner- my father and I, ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

1202. Love in A Flat - Lauren K. Alleyne

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  after Dean Young Dean in a story about Coltrane: how one time in a recording, he hit a wrong note— a real clam. In the second take, he hit...