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Poems
Twice a week, I post a poem I love by another poet. Some are well-known poems, but most are poems that have been published in the last 20 years. I find many in journals, online, and in chapbooks and books I own. My tastes in poetry is eclectic--poems just have to be great--so you will find every type of poem on my blog.
Little Shields, in Starlight by Carl Phillips
Little Shields, in Starlight by Carl Phillips posted in Literary Hub, 2022 Maybe there’s no need for us to go anywhere more far than...
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Jun 7, 20231 min read
Margaret's Moon by Jackie Kay
Margaret’s Moon by Jackie Kay After she died, I swear the sky Had the most beautiful of all sunsets, A blush of pink, then red, a glass...
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Jun 4, 20231 min read
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's...
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May 31, 20231 min read
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (Section 52)
from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 52 The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a...
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May 28, 20231 min read
One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy
One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy from her book Colors Passing Through Us: Poems, 2004 (and here) In movies, you can tell the...
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May 24, 20231 min read
Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan published in her 2010 book, What We Pass On At eleven, my granddaughter...
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May 21, 20231 min read
What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson
What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson published in his 2004 book, illegible address (Luquer Street Press) this is my suicide dress she...
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May 17, 20231 min read
My First Weeks by Sharon Olds
My First Weeks by Sharon Olds Sometimes, when I wonder what I’m like, underneath, I think of my first two weeks, I was drenched with...
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May 14, 20232 min read
A Readymade by Lucia Perillo
A Readymade by Lucia Perillo Out of nowhere the phone rings, and the voice of a fat man answers: Hell-low bay-bee . . . each syllable its...
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May 10, 20232 min read
The Stars Around the Beautiful Moon by Sappho
The stars around the beautiful moon by Sappho The stars around the beautiful moon Hiding their glittering forms Whenever she shines full...
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May 7, 20231 min read
Seedlings by Margaret Rozga
Seedlings by Margaret Rozga pubished in Whale Road Review, Issue 26, 2022 First, water the seedlings. Yes, even before coffee, before...
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May 3, 20231 min read
End of April by Phillis Levin
End of April by Phillis Levin published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins (and posted here) Under a cherry tree I found a robin’s...
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Apr 30, 20231 min read
Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett
Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett published in Commonweal Magazine, January 2021 The little boy shouts "To infinity and beyond!" and...
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Apr 26, 20231 min read
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white,...
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Apr 23, 20231 min read
Shakespearean Sonnet by R.S. Gwynn
Shakespearean Sonnet by R.S. Gwynn With a first line taken from the tv listings A man is haunted by his father's ghost. Boy meets girl...
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Apr 19, 20231 min read
Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew by Pattiann Rogers
Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew by Pattiann Rogers published in her book, Splitting and Binding, and in Orion Magazine Out among the wet...
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Apr 16, 20232 min read
the way and the way things are by nila northSun
the way and the way things are by nila northSun gramma thinks about her grandchildren they’re losing the ways don’t know how to talk...
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Apr 12, 20231 min read
Spilled Sugar by Thylias Moss
Spilled Sugar by Thylias Moss I cannot forget the sugar on the table. The hand that spilled it was not that of my usual father, three...
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Apr 9, 20231 min read
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my...
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Apr 5, 20231 min read
From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer
From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer published in his chapbook Greatest Hits #262 (Pudding House Press) A abandoned...
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Apr 2, 20231 min read
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