Poem A Day – Oct. 17, 2016
#MIDDLEBURY
Lost
Carl Sandburg
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 16, 2016
#MIDDLEBURY
Experience
Carl Sandburg
This morning I looked at the map of the day
And said to myself, “This is the way! This is the way I will go;
Thus shall I range on the roads ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 30, 2016
#MIDDLEBURY
Haunts
Carl Sandburg
There are places I go when I am strong.
One is a marsh pool where I used to go
with a long-ear hound-dog.
One is a wild crabapple tree; I was there
a ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 3, 2016
The Answer
Carl Sandburg
You have spoken the answer.
A child searches far sometimes
Into the red dust
On a dark rose leaf
And so you have gone far
For the answer is:
Silence.
In the ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-14-2014
Poem a Day: New and classic poems provided by the Academy of American Poets
Black Horizons
Carl Sandburg
Black horizons, come up.
Black horizons, kiss me.
That is all; so many lies; ... Continue Reading →
