To be or Not to Be (from Hamlet) To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by [...]
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Poem of the Day: To Be or Not to Be
Posted in play, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Write, Writer, writing on 07/31/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Poem of the Day: I Married You
Posted in Linda Pastan, marry, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, Write, Writer, writing on 07/30/2007 | Leave a Comment »
I Married You I married you for all the wrong reasons,… -Linda Pastan
Poem of the Day: Lost in the Sky is the Fear I Have of Being the Star
Posted in lost, Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, sky, strange, Write, Writer, writing on 07/28/2007 | 1 Comment »
Lost in the sky is the fear I have of being the star. Lost in the light rays stinging is the question that appears as a red wave. Burst of bud rays is the first ray that thinks it. First burst of bud rays and I love if I love in it. Torture is the [...]
Poem of the Day: Looking
Posted in loking, look, looking, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, robert kelly, universe, Write, Writer, writing on 07/27/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Looking Once when I read the funnies I took my little magnifying glass and looked too close… -Robert Kelly
Poem of the Day: Dolphin
Posted in lowell, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, robert, Write, Writer, writing on 07/26/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dolphin My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron composition by the incomparable wandering voice of Phèdre… -Robert Lowell
Poem of the Day: Minerva Jones
Posted in Edgar Lee Masters, jones, masters, minerva, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, Write, Writer, writing on 07/25/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Minerva Jones I am Minerva, the village poetess, Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk, And all the more when “Butch” Weldy Captured me after a brutal hunt. He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers; And I sank into death, growing numb [...]
Poem of the Day: Advice to a Prophet
Posted in poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, prophet, Richard Wilbur, Write, Writer on 07/24/2007 | 1 Comment »
Advice to a Prophet When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city, Mad-eyed from stating the obvious, Not proclaiming our fall but begging us In God’s name to have self-pity,.. -Richard Wilbur
Poem of the Day: Mending Wall
Posted in mending, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, wall, Write, Writer on 07/23/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mending Wall Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on [...]
Poem of the Day: Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Posted in poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, prufrock, Write, Writer on 07/20/2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S’ io credessi che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcum, s’ i’ odo il vero, Senza tema d’infamia ti respondo. Let us go then, you and I, When [...]
Poem of the Day: Blues
Posted in alexander, lazy, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, sloth, Write, Writer, writing on 07/19/2007 | 1 Comment »
Blues I am lazy, the laziest girl in the world. I sleep during… -Elizabeth Alexander
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