Poem A Day – Feb. 21, 2016
The Awakening
James Weldon Johnson
I dreamed that I was a rose
That grew beside a lonely way,
Close by a path none ever chose,
And there I lingered day by day.
Beneath the sunshine ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 20, 2016
Flame-Heart
Claude McKay
So much have I forgotten in ten years,
So much in ten brief years; I have forgot
What time the purple apples come to juice
And what month brings the shy forget-me-not;
Forgotten ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 19, 2016
The Philosopher Did Not Say
Jennifer Franklin
What secret had Nietzsche discovered
when he walked the Turin streets
before he flung his arms around
a horse being beaten and collapsed
into ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 18, 2016
Ghost Eden
Erika Meitner
after Anthony Haughey’s “Settlement”
Garden of rock.
Garden of brick and heather.
Garden of cranes with their hands raised
as if they know ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 17, 2016
The Heart Is a Foreign Country
Rangi McNeil
Ours is a partial language part pantomime,
part grimy guesswork: adulterated speculation
as to meaning & motivation.
Translated, heart ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 16, 2016
One of 100
David Trinidad
To be one such one – for one night only.
To be singled out
for this brief distinction
and fly first class (on miles),
wear black tie, walk red carpet.
To ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 15, 2016
71. Realizing Lucy
Ronaldo Wilson
At the top of the hill, before the light gives way to the pine that fractures across the sky, and the farmhouse, opens its door to shadow, there is ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 14, 2016
Love in a Life
Robert Browning
Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her,
Next time, herself! – not the ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 12, 2016
The Poem
Alice Notley
They leave you up there he said calling you names
As it gets dark remember for you’ve had the experience
Retaining barely a consciousness the body’d ... Continue Reading →
