Invitation to the Voyage Child, Sister, think how sweet to go out there and live together! To love at leisure, love and die in that land that resembles you! For me, damp suns in disturbed skies share mysterious charms with your treacherous eyes as they shine through tears. There, there’s only order, beauty: abundant, calm, [...]
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Poem of the Day: Invitation to the Voyage
Posted in baudelaire, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing, tagged invitation to the voyage on 07/23/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Poem of the Day: [state of emergency]
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing, tagged reyes on 07/17/2008 | 1 Comment »
[state of emergency] To honor movement in crescendos of text, combing through ashes for fragments of human bone, studying maps drawn for the absurdity of navigation — what may be so edgy about this state of emergency is my lack of apology for what I am bound to do. For instance, if I dream the [...]
Poem of the Day: A Blog is a Terrible Thing
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 07/17/2008 | 2 Comments »
A blog is a terrible thing. You think it would quench the thirst for real publication, but it doesn’t. Instead you act a little tyrant, and push your agenda. Your own printing press and audience. A Napoleon of poetry. And then when you need to speak to people, they don’t know who to listen to. [...]
Poem of the Day: When a Woman Loves a Man
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing, tagged lehman, when a woman loves a man on 07/17/2008 | Leave a Comment »
When a Woman Loves a Man When she says margarita she means daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, “I’ll never speak to you again,” she means, “Put your arms around me from behind as I stand disconsolate at the window.” He’s supposed to know that. When a man loves [...]
Poem of the Day: The Young Courtesan before Losing Her Innocence
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 07/13/2008 | Leave a Comment »
The eyes of the man who loves me seek in the dark while I sleep gently. What rain I am waiting for, what stories to share in the warm rain. What rising hopes, what a looking glass his love is, making me more beautiful than the truth of the face. The man who loves me [...]
Poem of the Day: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, she dwelt among the untrodden ways, words, wordsworth, Write, Writer, writing on 07/01/2008 | Leave a Comment »
She dwelt among the untrodden ways SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! –Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived [...]
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