There was a time I could have wanted it Wanted what I thought it was Wanted what I was with it Wanted it because There was a time I could have sunk in it Sunk in it as a single does Sunk in it, saying that What it was, it was There was [...]
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Poem of the Day: Seuss For Lonely Ladies
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 06/17/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Poem of the Day: You Might Still Wake Up Tomorrow
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 06/01/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Believer in Coffee and Sensible Dates A courtly love made into rape A happy girl. A name, a thought shoved into clean hands with desperation A new A sudden and sullen heartbeat A ticket to the fourth of July in a paper cup A utopian progeny, a step forward, looking of the outfit, the first [...]
Poem of a Day: When You Were Loved
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 05/30/2011 | 2 Comments »
I am the earthbound version of you the whole comedy come down That is all The central figure in a Tomb Wan’an painting Pressed mouth against the window screen When you were loved You were held When I was loved I was held apart That is all -Nina Alvarez
Poem of the Day: If You Get There Before I Do
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 05/05/2011 | 1 Comment »
Today is a day of great passages. My grandfather died this morning. Also I will be leaving for my writing residency at Vermont Studio Center. I’d like to dedicate this poem by Dick Allen to my grandfather, Arch Bruns, and to the state of Vermont. With love, Nina If You Get There Before I Do [...]
Poem of the Day: A Subscription to Dwell
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 05/02/2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Subscription to Dwell My tongue was frozen, the alphabet deserted A shadow disguised my public sloping; The mouth near me sat in the mouth of the sill. The room where language died Left me outside inside. Far from my stillness The cars ramble on My mourning tongue Through Philadelphia But for him it was [...]
Poem of the Day: Float or Sink
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 04/30/2011 | Leave a Comment »
LAST DAY OF National Poetry Month! Day 30 Poem submitted by Carrie Lefler Float or Sink Cold and frozen over The look that was once there The sparkle in the eyes The lust for life…gone. Only momentarily regained When the right combination of chemistry is found Ups and downs Uppers and downers The limbo in [...]
Poem of the Day: One for Spring
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 04/14/2011 | 2 Comments »
National Poetry Month, Day 14 Submitted by Mark Cox I saw her through the prism of winter In the dawn slivers of ice coated branches In a dust of clear crystals swept skyward by God’s breath In spectral glacial mists dancing through a ray In the luminescent glint of glistening frosts In twinkling drifts between [...]
Bring the Dark Gods of Ireland to Upstate New York
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 03/16/2011 | Leave a Comment »
$100 RAISED 60 DAYS LEFT Bring the Dark Gods of Ireland to Upstate New York BY: Nina Alvarez They will scare you out of your existential crisis My “Dark” Story It was late summer, Paris, 2008. I had just finished five Stephen King novels and the Twilight Series and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. I was a professional [...]
Poem of the Day: fishwife tears
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 03/14/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Her coppers whiskey-full tumblers and better To suffer peripheral vision is not enough an Old position perpetual emotional she hammer Stole the thunder from my imagination a mind- Full goliath until every body comes home no more …Fist fighting or counting shattered roses music Is blood on white feathers every second hesitant This snowman sunders [...]
Poem of the Day: On Men
Posted in Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 02/24/2011 | 2 Comments »
For there are men It is said That dally dark And roam in red And court the heart With apple eye And wait to wear Her Cossack thigh And when the greed Of love fulfilled Has run the course And named its guild Flying forth The might of men Is to bear it back again [...]
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