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Poem of the Day: Spring and Fall

Posted in Hopkins, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 02/26/2010| 3 Comments »

Spring and Fall

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By & by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep & know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow’s springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Poem of the Day: The Whole Mess Almost

Posted in corso, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 02/20/2010| 1 Comment »

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Poem of the Day: Self-Pity

Posted in d.h. lawrence, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 02/16/2010| 3 Comments »

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

-D.H. Lawrence

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Poem of the Day: The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem

Posted in poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing on 02/12/2010| 5 Comments »

In honor of Valentine’s Day:

The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem

—Is where space ends called death or infinity?
Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

A mere eyelid’s distance between you and me.

It took us a long time to discover the number zero.

John’s brother is afraid to go outside.
He claims he knows
the meaning of zero.

I want to kiss you.

A mathematician once told me you can add infinity
to infinity.

There is a zero vector, which starts and ends
at the same place, its force
and movement impossible
to record with
rays or maps or words.
It intersects yet runs parallel
with all others.

A young man I know
wants me to prove
the zero vector exists.
I tell him I can’t,
but nothing in my world
makes sense without it.

–Amy Uyematsu

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