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Carolyn Forché, 'Letter to a City Under Siege'
Cross-post from war_poetry:
Letter to a City Under SiegeTurning the pages of the book you have lent me of your wounded city ( Read more... ) -
Mary Oliver, 'The Night Traveler'
The Night TravelerPassing by, he could be anybody ( Read more... ) -
RIP Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943 - Dec. 9, 2024)
Winter Poem
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower
by Nikki Giovanni
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A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan ThomasOne Christmas was so much like the other, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve, or whether it snowed for ( Read more... ) -
Joe Eldridge, 'He Looks at Clouds'
Cross-post from war_poetry:
He Looks at CloudsFlight home from Frankfort to Chicago ( Read more... ) -
Joyce Sidman, 'The Season's Campaign'
Cross-post from war_poetry:
The Season's Campaign
I. Spring
We burst forth,
crisp green squads
bristling with spears.
We encircle the pond.
II. Summer
Brown velvet plumes
bob jauntily. On command,
our slim, waving arrows
rush toward the sun.
III. Fall
All red-winged generals
desert us. Courage
clumps and fluffs
like bursting pillows.
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'In drear nighted December' by John Keats
19 years ago today, stella_dolce posted this. A revisit seems overdue, so...
In drear nighted DecemberIn drear nighted December ( Read more... ) -
sleeping through Black Friday
As Thanksgiving comes to a close (and I hope y'all had a happy one!) and we're faced with the consumerist dystopia to come, I offer a notion from Denise Levertov as to how one might deal with it.
Eye MaskIn this dark I rest ( Read more... )