Poem of the Day, March 18
Call and Answer
by Robert Bly
Tell me why it is we don’t lift our voices these days
And cry over what is happening. Have you noticed
The plans are made for Iraq and the ice cap is melting?
I say to myself: “Go on, cry. What’s the sense
Of being an adult and having no voice? Cry out!
See who will answer! This is Call [...]
Poem of the Day. Call and Answer by ...
Poem of the Day, March 18
Call and Answer
by Robert Bly
Tell me why it is we don’t lift our voices these days
And cry over what is happening. Have you noticed
The plans are made for Iraq and the ice cap is melting?
I say to myself: “Go on, cry. What’s the sense
Of being an adult and having no voice? Cry out!
See who will answer! This is Call [...]
Poem of the Day. A Drinking Song by ...
Poem of the Day, March 17
A Drinking Song
by William Butler Yeats
Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.
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Poem of the Day. For the Anniversar...
Poem of the Day, March 16
W.S. Merwin died yesterday, March 15 2019.For the Anniversary of My Death
by W.S. Merwin
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveler
Like the beam of a lightless star
Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange ga [...]
Poem of the Day. Everything Good Be...
Poem of the Day, March 15
Everything Good Between Men and Women
by C.D. Wright
has been written in mud and butter
and barbecue sauce. The walls and
the floors used to be gorgeous.
The socks off-white and a near match.
The quince with fire blight
but we get two pints of jelly
in the end. Long walks strengthen
the back. You with a fever blister [...]
Poem of the Day. Paradise on Black I...
Poem of the Day, March 14
Paradise on Black Ice
by Patrick Donnelly
Heaven hunts round for those that find itself below, and then it snatches.
—Emily Dickinson
I wind
the sheet of elegy
while he\'s still alive, I can\'t help it,
I follow his breath while he sleeps,
greet each coming and going,
w [...]
Poem of the Day. Waking in March by ...
Poem of the Day, March 13
Waking in March
by Phillip Levine
Last night, again, I dreamed
my children were back at home,
small boys huddled in their separate beds,
and I went from one to the other
listening to their breathing — regular,
almost soundless — until a white light
hardened against the bedroom wall,
the light of Lo [...]
Poem of the Day. Small Boy by Norman...
Poem of the Day, March 12
Small Boy
by Norman MacCaig
He picked up a pebble
and threw it into the sea.
And another, and another.
He couldn’t stop.
He wasn’t trying to fill the sea.
He wasn’t trying to empty the beach.
He was just throwing away,
nothing else but.
Like a kitten playing
he was practicing for the future
when there’ll be so many t [...]
Poem of the Day. Winter Poem by Nik...
Poem of the Day, March 11
Winter Poem
by Nikki Giovanni
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
[...]
Poem of the Day. A March Snow by El...
Poem of the Day, March 10
A March Snow
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Let the old snow be covered with the new:
The trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden.
Let it be hidden wholly from our view
By pure white flakes, all trackless and untrodden.
When Winter dies, low at the sweet Spring’s feet
Let him be mantled in a clean, white shee [...]
Poem of the Day. Is/Not by Margaret ...
Poem of the Day, March 9
Is/Not
by Margaret Atwood
Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise
sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities
you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,
nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow traveler
Give up this medical concern,
buttoned, attentive,
permit yourself anger
and permit me [...]
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