When its windy, I see him. He is always already waiting, like these lines. Until my fingers touched the keys, the words were nowhere. Then suddenly, they were leaping out; impatient, ready. It is this way with things that I think and see. They are never there and always already there. When the conditions for [...]
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Posted in Nina Alvarez, words on 03/30/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Poem of the Day: Die Muhle Brennt-Richard
Posted in poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 03/30/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Die Muhle Brennt–Richard (after a painting by Georg Bazelitz) When the red chair suspended in air grazes the top of your head… -Richard Matthews
Poem of the Day: Resume
Posted in Dorothy Parker, poem of the day, poetry, Resume, Write, Writer on 03/28/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Resume Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. -Dorothy Parker
Poem of the Day: all nearness pauses, while a star can grow
Posted in all nearness pauses, cummings, love, poem of the day, poetry, Write, Writer on 03/27/2007 | 1 Comment »
all nearness pauses,while a star can grow all distance breathes a final dream of bells; -e.e. cummings
Poem of the Day: The Second Coming
Posted in poem of the day, poetry, Write, Writer, Yeats on 03/26/2007 | 1 Comment »
The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate [...]
Poem of the Day: Dirty Poem
Posted in Marge Piercy, poem of the day, poetry, words, Write, Writer on 03/25/2007 | 1 Comment »
Dirty Poem Snow lies on my fields though the air is so warm I want to roll on my back and wriggle. Sure, the dark downhill weep shows who’s winning, and the thatch of tall grass is sticking out of the banks, but I want to start digging and planting. My swelling hills, my leafbrown [...]
Poem of the Day: Annabel Lee
Posted in Annabel Lee, Poe, poem of the day, poetry, words, Write, Writer on 03/24/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was [...]
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Poem of the Day: Song
Posted in Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Nina Alvarez, poem of the day, poetry, Song, words, Write, Writer on 03/23/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Song Listen: there was a goat’s head hanging by ropes in a tree. All night it hung there and sang. And those who heard it… -Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Poem of the Day: Still Life Or
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem of the day, poetry, Robert Creeley, words, Write, Writer on 03/22/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Still Life Or mobiles: that the wind can catch at, against itself,.. -Robert Creeley
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