Poem a Day – 09-13-2014
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from The Princess [Come Down, O Maid]
Alfred Tennyson
Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:
What ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-12-2014
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Dammerung
Simon Armitage
In later life I retired from poetry,
ploughed the profits
into a family restaurant
in ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-11-2014
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Watching the Sea Go
Dana Levin
Thirty seconds of yellow lichen.
Thirty seconds of coil and surge,
fern and ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-10-2014
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Jonathan
Jeffrey McDaniel
We are underwater off the coast of Belize.
The water is lit up even though it’s ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-08-2014
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Survivor Guilt
Ron Padgett
It’s very easy to get.
Just keep living and you’ll find yourself
getting ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-07-2014
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To an Old Square Piano
Robinson Jeffers
Whose fingers wore your ivory keys
So thin – as tempest and ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-06-2014
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Prairie Dawn
Willa Cather
A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;
A pungent odor from the dusty sage;
A ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-04-14
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Room Tone
Bill Berkson
Wrestling that old beauty
“Body and Soul”
To the ground
The genus award ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-02-14
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The Forest Formed Gills
Eric Baus
The ventriloquist’s vines fled to an address on the floor of a cumulus ... Continue Reading →
Poem a Day – 09-01-14
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Coming Close
Philip Levine
Take this quiet woman, she has been
standing before a polishing wheel
for over ... Continue Reading →
