Poem A Day – April 17, 2016
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Blueacre
Monica Youn
Lamentation (Martha Graham, 1930)
What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? Lamentations 2:13
Wordless, ceaseless,
a ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 16, 2016
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Last Sleep Best Sleep
Brenda Shaughnessy
Life, this charade of not-death.
Amnesiac of our nights together,
overheard talking in some other voice.
The great fruits of my ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 15, 2016
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Here
Kim Addonizio
After it ended badly it got so much better
which took a while of course but still
he grew so tender & I so grateful
which maybe tells you something ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 13, 2016
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Pastoral
William Carlos Williams
The little sparrows
Hop ingenuously
About the pavement
Quarreling
With sharp voices
Over those things
That interest them.
But we who are ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 12, 2016
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Mid-Day
H.D.
The light beats upon me.
I am startled –
a split leaf crackles on the paved floor –
I am anguished – defeated.
A slight wind shakes the seed-pods ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 11, 2016
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Ota Benga at Edankraal
Yusef Komunyakaa
Maybe it was hog-killing time
when he arrived in Lynchburg,
Virginia, several lifetimes behind him,
the old smell of the monkey house
at ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 9, 2016
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The neighbor’s buddy watching my screen through the window
francine j. harris
Because the tube is turned to the window, the neighbor’s buddy coughs
a cough of ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 8, 2016
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Blind Boone’s Apparitions
Tyehimba Jess
John William Boone (1864-1927) world-renowned Ragtime pianist.
C
my motto for life
– merit, not sympathy, wins –
my ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 7, 2016
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Transit
Rita Dove
If music be the food of love, play on.
-Alice Herz-Sommer, survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto / concentration camp
This is the house that music built:
each ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – April 6, 2016
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Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park
Major Jackson
The mountains are at their theater again,
each ridge practicing an oration ... Continue Reading →
