Poem A Day – April 5, 2016
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To E
Sara Teasdale
The door was opened and I saw you there
And for the first time heard you speak my name.
Then like the sun your sweetness overcame
My shy and shadowy mood; ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 4, 2016
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Garden Abstract
Hart Crane
The apple on its bough is her desire, –
Shining suspension, mimic of the sun.
The bough has caught her breath up, and her voice,
Dumbly ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 3, 2016
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There Is No Name Yet
Dorothea Lasky
Until I find a name
I will not put it in the soul calculator
I will leave it free and open and unnamed
And not limit my expectations ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 2, 2016
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Poem to First Love
Matthew Yeager
To have been told “I love you” by you could well be, for me,
the highlight of my life, the best feeling, the best peak
on my ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – April 1, 2016
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Dum Spiro Spero
Erin Belieu
Come, Lord, and lift the fallen bird
Abandoned on the ground;
The soul bereft and longing so
To have the lost be found …
Before the movers ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 31, 2016
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The Carousel
Zachary Schomburg
I’m in a carousel.
The kind that spins
people to the wall.
There is a woman
and a man and a man
inside of it too,
and a man operating ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 30, 2016
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Atlantic Elegy
Julie Marie Wade
We see a little farther now and a little farther still – C.D. Wright
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I ask the rain to remit, but not because I am ungrateful
A raincheck ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 29, 2016
Miracles
Walt Whiteman
Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 28, 2016
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The Birthnight
Walter de la Mare
Dearest, it was a night
That in its darkness rocked Orion’s stars;
A sighing wind ran faintly white
Along the willows, and the cedar ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 27, 2016
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Endangered Species
Dan Beachy-Quick
Even this
brief thought is endless. A
man speaks as if unaware of the
erotic life of the ampersand. In the
isolate field he comes to ... Continue Reading →
