Another poem from the list for April.
What? Like none of you made a list? I NEED my LISTS, people. Bad things happen without them.b o d yby James MerrillLook closely at the letters. Can you see,entering (stage right), then floating...
View ArticleYou know, April really *is* the cruelest month.
But that is neither here nor there. Because it is still yesterday somewhere (in Seattle, maybe?) I bring poem #4 for the month. I may have posted this one before, despite Bishop's way of playing fast...
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1. Watched Torchwood. Current meta reflections are stuck on, "oh, SHOW."a. I don't suppose there is any in-person type chatting scheduled for this episode?b. No? Ah well.c. I shall have to re-watch the...
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Forgot to post a poem yesterday; in my defense, I did write some snippets of things and *koff*startanewAU*koff*So, for yesterday:I Wish in the City of Your Heartby Robley WilsonI wish in the city of...
View ArticlePoetry Month! (Or, "hey! look at my shiny English Literature degree!")
Right. Time for a roundup of what poetry I've posted so far this month, along with a few little (teenie tiny, practically non-existent) notes on why these poems struck me, or why I shared them, or why...
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To a Daughter Leaving HomeLinda PastanWhen I taught youat eight to ridea bicycle, loping alongbeside youas you wobbled awayon two round wheels,my own mouth roundingin surprise when you pulledahead down...
View Articleaccording to S, jelly beans and coffee are not sufficient as dinner.
Whatever. I'll eat a couple of peeps as dessert. That's totally a meal.The Trouble With PoetsPeter Mulvey*The trouble with poets is they talk too much.They tell us how it hurts them,and it hurts them...
View ArticleI suspect knowing the ending makes this whole series...
...a bit anticlimactic. Still, I'm pressing on and waiting to really get drawn in by a character. It's early, but I'm hopeful that someone will strike me as fantastically interesting soon. So far, it's...
View ArticleIt's funny how people can read this poem ENTIRELY wrong.
For instance: The tone is very ironical. The rich mistress gains the opposite effect from the pearls to the one she intends. The speaker is fully aware that the task she performs everyday for her...
View ArticleReligion, Shakespeare, Communist Revolution...it's got everything.
HamletBoris Pasternak, transl. Nina KossmanThe din quiets. I step onto the boards.Leaning against the jamb of the doorI try to discern in the distant echoWhat will happen in my days.Through axes of a...
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This Was Once a Love PoemJane HirshfieldThis was once a love poem,before its haunches thickened, its breath grew short,before it found itself sitting,perplexed and a little embarrassed,on the fender of...
View ArticleApril, you guys. It's all about poetry and shopping.
What He ThoughtHeather McHughFor Fabbio DoplicherWe were supposed to do a job in Italyand, full of our feeling forourselves (our sense of beingPoets from America) we wentfrom Rome to Fano, metthe...
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Self-ImprovementTony Hoagland Just before she flew off like a swan to her wealthy parents' summer home, Bruce's college girlfriend asked him to improve his expertise at oral sex, and offered him some...
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GreenDH LawrenceThe sky was apple green.The sky was green wine held up in the sun,The moon was a golden petal between.She opened her eyes, and greenthey shone, clear like flowers undone,For the first...
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1. Tonight, I'm sitting in bed, reading Three Sisters while eating shortcake and listening to So Runs the World Away for the fifth time. 1a. I would say it's been a pretty good day, but I just found...
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The LanguageRobert CreeleyLocate Ilove you some-where inteeth andeyes, biteit buttake care notto hurt, youwant somuch so little. Wordssay everything.I love youagain,then whatis emptinessfor. To fill,...
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GodlikeAnselm Hollowhen you suddenlyfeel like talkingabout the timesin your life when you werea total idiot asshole you resistthe impulse& just sit thereat the head of the tablebeaming
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Voice and AddressMichael PalmerYou are the owner of one complete thoughtIts sons and daughtersmarch toward the capitalThere are growing apprehensions to the southIt is ringed aboutby enclaves of those...
View Articlenot-a-famous-poem. (Yet.)
So, I've been doing NaPoWriMo all month. This is not a poem I wrote; it's by another participant who kindly agreed to allow me to repost/link one of her pieces. Because it is fantastic and I love it....
View ArticleSomething short. It's late, I'm tired, the world keeps spinning without my...
DivorceBilly CollinsOnce, two spoons in bed,now tined forksacross a granite tableand the knives they have hired.****I firmly believe one should never trust a grown man who calls himself Billy. Or...
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AntimatterRussell Edson On the other side of a mirror there's an inverse world, where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the earth and recede to the first slime of love. And in the evening...
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