Poem A Day – July 9, 2016
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A Confession to a Friend in Trouble
Thomas Hardy
Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less
Here, far away, than when I tarried near;
I even smile old smiles – ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 8, 2016
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Vapor
Martin Rock
Tonight I’m to occupy a single breath:
to let it slowly out as an open kettle might
release its steam, left long on the stove.
Eventually all substance ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 7, 2016
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Falling Peacock in Rainstorm at Night
Peg Boyers
My tail of colored feathers
hangs matted
closed behind me
It weighs me down
In this wet darkness
I can neither
dance nor ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 6, 2016
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Grief’s Weird Sister, Gratitude
Jennifer Michael Hecht
How to read a tome of Collected Poems?
Read one that pivotally changes you
and lose track of the page and title.
How ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 5, 2016
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Brilliant Juice
Todd Colby
It is the people who remember,
but when the people are gone
we won’t have anyone to remember.
People go to a lot of trouble
to make things ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 4, 2016
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I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule
Chen Chen
But really
I would prefer
to sit, drink water,
reread some Russians
a while longer
– ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 3, 2016
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Medusa
Louise Bogan
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees,
Facing a sheer sky.
Everything moved, – a bell hung ready to strike,
Sun and reflection wheeled by.
When ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 2, 2016
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Week-night Service
D.H. Lawrence
The five old bells
Are hurrying and eagerly calling,
Imploring, protesting
They know, but clamorously falling
Into gabbling incoherence, ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – July 1, 2016
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Breaking Spring
Matt Hart
seems like a good way to say
I spent all last week feeling helpless
and talking about it in terms of not being
Why can’t compassion change ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – June 30, 2016
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Animal Prudence
Kathy Fagan
Mice drink the rainwater before dying by
the poison we set in the cupboard for them.
They come for the birdseed, and winter
is so grey here the ... Continue Reading →
