Poem A Day – Jan. 2, 2016
January
William Carlos Williams
Again I reply to the triple winds
running chromatic fifths of derision
outside my window:
Play louder.
You will not succeed. I am
bound more to my sentences
the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Jan. 1, 2016
The Leash
Ada Limon
After the birthing of bombs of forks and fear,
the frantic automatic weapons unleashed,
the spray of bullets into a crowd holding hands,
that brute sky opening in ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 31, 2015
Work
Sally Bliumis-Dunn
I could tell they were father and son,
the air between them, slack as though
they hardly noticed one another.
The father sanded the gunwales,
the boy coiled ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 30, 2015
Alternate Self-Portrait
Dean Rader
One day
I will drift
into darkness
and know it
perhaps
the way a son
recognizes a mother
after he has returned
from many years
of travel
understanding
the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 29, 2015
Gentle Collisions
Tara Betts
extract longing.
fold its edges
in gold paper
to rest on a scale.
the catapult of one
plate plummets
the other swings
bobs and waits
for a leaf of one’s
want ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 28, 2015
Like a Curtain
Jan Freeman
When she stretched her arms
the mist lifted and the red buds opened on the maple trees.
She, in the garden in pajamas,
danced with her friend Isabel,
as the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 27, 2015
Winter Leafage
Edith Matilda Thomas
Each year I mark one lone outstanding tree,
Clad in its robings of the summer past,
Dry, wan, and shivering in the wintry blast.
It will not pay ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 26, 2015
The Desplaines Forest
Edgar Lee Masters
The sun has sunk below the level plain,
And yet above the forest’s leafy gloom
The glory of the evening lightens still.
Smooth as a mirror ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 25, 2015
Holidays
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Dec. 24, 2015
Sounds of the Winter
Walt Whitman
Sounds of the winter too,
Sunshine upon the mountains – many a distant strain
From cheery railroad train – from nearer field, barn, house
The ... Continue Reading →
