Poem of the Day April 24
Distressed Haiku
by Donald Hall
In a week or ten days
the snow and ice
will melt from Cemetery Road.
I’m coming! Don’t move!
Once again it is April.
Today is the day
we would have been married
twenty-six years.
I finished with April
halfway through March.
You think that their
dying is the worst
thing that [...]
Poem of the Day. Distressed Haiku by ...
Poem of the Day April 24
Distressed Haiku
by Donald Hall
In a week or ten days
the snow and ice
will melt from Cemetery Road.
I’m coming! Don’t move!
Once again it is April.
Today is the day
we would have been married
twenty-six years.
I finished with April
halfway through March.
You think that their
dying is the worst
thing that [...]
Poem of the Day. Sonnet 98 by William...
Poem of the Day April 23
Today is Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday.
Sonnet 98
by William Shakespeare
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smel [...]
Poem of the Day. Entirely by Louis Ma...
Poem of the Day April 22
Entirely
by Louis MacNeice
If we could get the hang of it entirely
It would take too long;
All we know is the splash of words in passing
And falling twigs of song,
And when we try to eavesdrop on the great
Presences it is rarely
That by a stroke of luck we can appropriate
Even a phrase enti [...]
Poem of the Day. Love Lives Beyond th...
Poem of the Day April 21
Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
by John Clare
Love lives beyond
The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew—
I love the fond,
The faithful, and the true
Love lives in sleep,
\'Tis happiness of healthy dreams
Eve’s dews may weep,
But love delightful seems.
[...]
Poem of the Day. Descending Theology:...
Poem of the Day April 20
Descending Theology: The Resurrection
by Mary Karr
From the far star points of his pinned extremities,
cold inched in—black ice and squid ink—
till the hung flesh was empty.
Lonely in that void even for pain,
he missed his splintered feet,
the human stare buried in his face.
He ached for two hands made of meat
he coul [...]
Poem of the Day. Paschal by Robert Pi...
Poem of the Day April 19
Paschal
by Robert Pinsky
Easter was the old North
Goddess of the dawn.
She rises daily in the East
And yearly in spring for the great
Paschal candle of the sun.
Her name lingers like a spot
Of gravy in the figured vestment
Of the language of the Britains.
Her totem the randy bunny.
Our very Thursdays and Wednesdays
Ar [...]
Poem of the Day. April 18 by Sylvia P...
Poem of the Day April 18
April 18
by Sylvia Plath
the slime of all my yesterdays
rots in the hollow of my skull
and if my stomach would contract
because of some explicable phenomenon
such as pregnancy or constipation
I would not remember you
or that because of sleep
infrequent as a moon of greencheese
that because of food
nourishing as violet [...]
Poem of the Day. The Last Supper By R...
Poem of the Day April 17
The Last Supper
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
[On seeing Leonardo da Vinci\'s \"Last Supper\", Milan 1904.]
They are assembled, astonished and disturbed
round him, who like a sage resolved his fate,
and now leaves those to whom he most belonged,
leaving and passing by them like a strange [...]
Poem of the Day. Thrushes by Ted Hugh...
Poem of the Day April 16
Thrushes
by Ted Hughes
Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn,
More coiled steel than living – a poised
Dark deadly eye, those delicate legs
Triggered to stirrings beyond sense – with a start, a bounce,
a stab
Overtake the instant and drag out some writhing thing.
No indolent procrastinations [...]
Poem of the Day. Stanzas. — Apr...
Poem of the Day April 15
Stanzas. — April, 1814
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon,
Rapid clouds have drank the last pale beam of even:
Away! the gathering winds will call the darkness soon,
And profoundest midnight shroud the serene lights of heaven.
Pause not! The time is past! Every voice cries, Away!
Tem [...]
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