Poem A Day – Oct. 4, 2016
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Sunset
E.E. Cummings
Great carnal mountains crouching in the cloud
That marrieth the young earth with a ring,
Yet still its thoughts builds heavenward, whence spring
Wee ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 3, 2016
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To Joseph Lee
Angelina Weld Grimke
How strange, how passing strange, when we awake
And lift our faces to the light
To know that you are lying shut away
Within the night.
How ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 2, 2016
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Electrons
Ruth Madievsky
The eye chews the apple,
sends the brain
an image of the un-apple. Which is similar
to the way I throw my voice
like a Frisbee, like salt
over a ... Continue Reading →
It’s 10 pm: Is your personal information secure?
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By JUSTIN GOLDEN
Those of us of a certain age remember a television commercial in the hazy past where the announcer would intone, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Oct. 1, 2016
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Landscape with Clinic and Oracle
Lynn Melnick
Maybe you’re not the featherweight champ
of all the cutthroat combat sports
(fifteen and pregnant
again)
but you’d ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 30, 2016
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Shared Plight
Kamilah Aisha Moon
Bound to whims,
bred solely for
circuses of desire.
To hell with savannahs,
towns like Rosewood.
Domestics or domesticated,
one name or ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 29, 2016
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Resurrection
Alison Hawthorne Deming
My friend a writer and scientist
has retreated to a monastery
where he has submitted himself
out of exhaustion to not knowing.
He’s ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 28, 2016
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Deer at Twilight
Paula Bohince
Darkness wounds the barley,
etching it with denser clouds. A herd sends its
envoy out to nose the garbage at
road’s edge before creeping ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 27, 2016
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Amaze
Adelaide Crapsey
I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.
About this poem
“Amaze” was published in ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Sept. 26, 2016
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Letters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day brings a ship,
Every ship brings a word;
Well for those who have no fear,
Looking seaward well assured
That the word the vessel brings
Is ... Continue Reading →
