I have been fighting all my life, and losing it seems. Against the force of my own gravity. I want to succumb to it, but as low as it may pull me down, it won’t kill me. So I succumb only sporadically, as it is better to swim against your anchors while your head is [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Poem of the Day: Response to Either/Or, one
Posted in words on 08/20/2008 | 1 Comment »
Song of the Day: Be a Good Lass
Posted in words, tagged ghost tales on 08/14/2008 | Leave a Comment »
The fall is coming and though I’m in Paris I am already thinking about the Northeastern U.S. in autumn and that sad, sweet quality of the season. And it brings me to mind of leaves and pumpkins and sweaters and returning to school, though I haven’t had a fall homecoming since I quit teaching 4 [...]
Poem of the Day: From “Me Again”
Posted in Neruda, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, Write, Writer on 08/13/2008 | Leave a Comment »
From “Me Again” The more bored I became with my unacceptable person, the more I returned to the theme of my person; worst of all, I kept painting myself to myself in the midst of a happening. What an idiot (I said to myself a thousand times over) to perfect all that craft of description [...]
Poem of the Day: Anselm Kiefer
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing, tagged kiefer on 08/10/2008 | 3 Comments »
Anselm Kiefer The woman thinks of Straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac the milky dust that clings to a hand As it paints furrows in a bohemian landscape He readies the milk-mud for a canvas half the size of her vision and without knowing anything else she has seen him in New [...]
Poem-Video of the Day: Ithaca
Posted in cavary, ithaca, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing, tagged cavary, ithaca on 08/09/2008 | 5 Comments »
Since I posted the poem Ithaca by C.P. Cavafy in May 2007, it has been the most sought after and most read poem on this site, garnering 1,720 views. Karl Mikelsons just wrote in to the comments section of the posting and pointed me to this fantastic reading of the poem by Sean Connery. Only [...]
Poem of the Day: Aubade: Lake Erie
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing, tagged thomas merton on 08/07/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aubade: Lake Erie When sun, light handed, sows this Indian water With a crop of cockles, The vines arrange their tender shadows In the sweet leafage of an artificial France. Awake, in the frames of windows, innocent children, Loving the blue, sprayed leaves of childish life, Applaud the bearded corn, the bleeding grape, And cry: [...]
Poem of the Day: Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse]
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing, tagged William Shakespeare on 08/05/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse] But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud, Adonis’ trampling courser doth espy, And forth she rushes, snorts and neighs aloud; The strong-neck’d steed, being tied unto a tree, Breaketh his rein, and to her straight goes he. [...]
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