Poem of the Day, March 4
We Like March
by Emily Dickinson
We like March, his shoes are purple,
He is new and high;
Makes he mud for dog and peddler,
Makes he forest dry;
Knows the adder’s tongue his coming,
And begets her spot.
Stands the sun so close and mighty
That our minds are hot.
News is he of all the others;
Bold it were to die
[...]
Poem of the Day. We Like March by Emi...
Poem of the Day, March 4
We Like March
by Emily Dickinson
We like March, his shoes are purple,
He is new and high;
Makes he mud for dog and peddler,
Makes he forest dry;
Knows the adder’s tongue his coming,
And begets her spot.
Stands the sun so close and mighty
That our minds are hot.
News is he of all the others;
Bold it were to die
[...]
Poem of the Day. Polish and Balm by K...
Poem of the Day, March 3
Polish and Balm
by Kay Ryan
Dust develops
from inside
as well as
on top when
objects stop
being used.
No unguent
can soothe
the chap of
abandonment.
Who knew
the polish
and balm in
a person’s
simple passage
among her things.
We knew she
loved them
but not what
love means.
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Poem of the Day. Misery and Splendor ...
Poem of the Day, March 2
Robert Hass was born March 1, 1941
Misery and Splendor
by Robert Hass
Summoned by conscious recollection, she
would be smiling, they might be in a kitchen talking,
before or after dinner. But they are in this other room,
The window has many small panes, and they are on a couch
embracing. He holds her as tightly
as he [...]
Poem of the Day. A Storm In April By ...
Poem of the Day, March 1
Happy Birthday to Richard Wilbur, born March 1, 1921
A Storm In April
By Richard Wilbur
Some winters, taking leave,
Deal us a last, hard blow,
Salting the ground like Carthage
Before they will go.
But the bright, milling snow
Which throngs the air today—
It is a way of leaving
So as to stay.
The light flakes d [...]
Poem of the Day. Late February by Ted...
Poem of the Day, February 28
Late February
by Ted Kooser
The first warm day,
and by mid-afternoon
the snow is no more
than a washing
strewn over the yards,
the bedding rolled in knots
and leaking water,
the white shirts lying
under the evergreens.
Through the heaviest drifts
rise autumn’s fallen
bicycles, small carnivals
of paint and [...]
Poem of the Day. The Tide Rises, the ...
Poem of the Day, February 27
Happy Birthday to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born February 27, 1806.
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
[...]
Poem of the Day. The Everlasting Mond...
Poem of the Day, February 26
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes met February 25, 1956
The Everlasting Monday
by Sylvia Plath
Thou shalt have an everlasting
Monday and stand in the moon.
The moon’s man stands in his shell,
Bent under a bundle
Of sticks. The light falls chalk and cold
Upon our bedspread.
His teeth are chattering among the l [...]
Poem of the Day. The Wheel by William...
Poem of the Day, February 25
The Wheel
by William Butler Yeats
Through winter-time we call on spring,
And through the spring on summer call,
And when abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter’s best of all;
And after that there s nothing good
Because the spring-time has not come –
Nor know that what disturbs our blood
Is but its [...]
Poem of the Day. Spring is like a per...
Poem of the Day, February 24
Spring is like a perhaps hand
by E. E. Cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and
changing everything carefully
spring is like a [...]
Poem of the Day. Unseen Buds by Walt ...
Poem of the Day, February 23
Unseen Buds
by Walt Whitman
Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well,
Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,
Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn,
Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, compact, sleeping;
Billions of billions, and trillions of trillions of them wa [...]
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