Today, I was in a state, as they say, fit to be tied. My arm, I wore it like a long noose Tucked under my neck, The elbow up high Pointing at God. Today, I was tied in knots, as they say, I found I had beaten the great Mohammed Ali Out of a lifespan. [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Poem of the Day: Old in South Philly
Posted in Nina Alvarez, Philadelphia, poem of the day, poetry, South Philadelphia, words, Write, Writer on 03/21/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Poem of the Day: How Poetry Comes to Me
Posted in gary snyder, Nina Alvarez, poem of the day, poetry, words, Write, Writer on 03/21/2007 | Leave a Comment »
How Poetry Comes to Me It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays… -Gary Snyder
Poem of the Day: The Little Mute Boy
Posted in Little Mute Boy, Lorca, Nina Alvarez, poem of the day, poetry, words, Write, Writer on 03/20/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice… -Frederico Garcia Lorca
Poem of the Day: If You Forget Me
Posted in Neruda, Nina Alvarez, poem of the day, poetry on 03/19/2007 | Leave a Comment »
If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch… -Pablo Neruda
Poem of the Day: The Pardon
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem of the day, poetry, Richard Wilbur, words on 03/19/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Pardon My dog lay dead five days without a grave In the thick of summer, hid in a clump of pine… -Richard Wilbur
Poem of the Day: Wolves
Posted in Louis MacNeice, macneice, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, Wolves, words, Write, Writer, writing on 03/17/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wolves I do not want to be reflective any more Envying and despising unreflective things… -Louis MacNeice
Poem of the Day: Fire and Ice
Posted in ice, poem, poem of the day, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 03/16/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ice and rain may cover the Northeast this weekend to such a degree that I won’t be able to travel to Morgantown and give my paper at the African Literature Association’s 33rd annual conference. In rueful honor of this, today’s poem: Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in [...]
Poem of the Day: Song of Myself
Posted in poem of the day, poetry, Whitman, words on 03/15/2007 | Leave a Comment »
from Song of Myself I Celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d [...]
Poem of the Day: O me! O life!
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem of the day, poetry, Whitman, words, Write, Writer on 03/14/2007 | Leave a Comment »
O me! O life! O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless–of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light–of the objects mean–of the struggle ever renew’d; [...]
Poem of the Day: The Waking
Posted in poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, roethke, waking, Write, Writer, writing on 03/13/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Waking I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. -Theodore Roethke
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