Painters
In the cave with a long-ago flare
a woman stands, her arms up. Red twig, black twig, brown twig.
A wall of leaping darkness over her.
-Muriel Rukeyser
Poem of the Day: Painters
02/06/2009 by Cosmographia Books
HUZZAH! 400,000 visits ! Thank you for supporting poetry!
- 492,499 hits
Top Poems
-
Recent Posts
- Top 10 Poems of 2020 12/31/2020
- The Anthology of Transcendent Poetry Comes Out This Month 07/10/2019
- Top 10 Poems of 2018 12/31/2018
- SPIRITUAL FICTION PRIZE! 08/01/2018
- Poem of the Month: Visitation 07/01/2018
- Poem of the Month: Secret Wedding 06/01/2018
- Poem of the Month: This World Is a Grave 05/01/2018
- Poem of the Month: Of Memories by the Sea 04/01/2018
- Poem of the Month: Foreigner 03/01/2018
- Poem of the Month: Room 19 02/01/2018
- Poem of the Month: Prince Christian Sound, Greenland 12/31/2017
- Poem of the Month: Fire Dancer 12/31/2017
See Top 10 Poems of:
Recent Comments
Valerie Hope Bennett on Send Me Your Poems, Oh Deathle… Cynthia Ventresca on Poem of the Month: Visita… David Murphy on Poem of the Day: I Walked a Mi… praddyumn kulshresht… on Poem of the Month: Visita… czinke on Poem of the Day: The Chaos of… Archives
- December 2020
- July 2019
- December 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- December 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- January 2015
- October 2014
- July 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- June 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- September 2012
- June 2012
- March 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
Poem of the Month 
Leave a Reply