Sunday, November 23, 2025

1198. North of San Francisco - Yehuda Amichai

›
      Translated from the Hebrew by Chana Blochr Here the soft hills touch the ocean like one eternity touching another and the cows grazi...
Monday, November 10, 2025

1197. A Man and a Woman Sit Near Each Other - Robert Bly

›
A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not long at this moment to be older, or younger, nor born in any other nation, or time, o...
Monday, October 20, 2025

1196. Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (Excerpt) - William Wordsworth

›
                                        And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of so...

1195. My True Home Is Cold Mountain - Han Shan

›
The Tientai Mountains are my home mist-shrouded cloud paths keep guests away  thousand-meter cliffs make hiding easy above a rocky ledge amo...
Monday, September 29, 2025

1194. The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune - William Stafford

›
Wisdom is having things right in your life  and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed: you may b...
Monday, September 15, 2025

1193. New Mexican Mountain - Robinson Jeffers, 1932

›
  I watch the Indians dancing to help the young corn at Taos Pueblo. The old men squat in a ring And make the song, the young women with...
Sunday, September 07, 2025

1192. Poem For Dan's Departure - Kate Farrell

›
So much do we love Talking to people we love About ideas we love That thinking becomes a conversation With people we love about ideas we lov...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

1191. In The Sierras - Al Young

›
Way up here, where sky comes close to calling all the shots, where photographers, geographers and gopher- loathing golfers and creature-...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

1190. Axe Handles - Gary Snyder

›
One afternoon the last week in April showing Kai how to throw a hatchet One half turn and it sticks in a stump. He recalls the hatchet head ...