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New Year’s Day 2021
“As wave is driven by waveAnd each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,Always, forever and new. What was beforeIs left behind; what never was is now;And every passing moment is renewed.” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses ________________ … Continue reading
Poem for the End of a Hard Year
Richard Hoffman (1949 – ) is the author of the poetry collections Without Paradise: Poems, and Gold Star Road, which won the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. He is also the author of the memoir Half the House, and a collection of short … Continue reading
How Dark the Beginning
Maggie Smith (1977 – ), the one who is not a famous British actress, is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor, who lives with her husband and two children in Bexley, Ohio. Her poetry collections include Lamp of the Body; Good Bones; The … Continue reading
The OTHER Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith (1977 – ), the one who is not a famous British actress, is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor, who lives with her husband and two children in Bexley, Ohio. Her poetry collections include Lamp of the Body; Good Bones; The … Continue reading
Old December’s Bareness
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English playwright, poet, actor, and theatrical company partner; widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.” To read William … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Winter
Tagged December, Sonnet, William Shakespeare
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This is the Sound of You
W. S. Merwin (1927–2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many translations. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part … Continue reading
Holidays – a poem
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), was the most popular American poet of his day, and one of the first American celebrities who was also known in Europe. Though he was a very private man, who suffered greatly from neuralgia (nerve pain), his … Continue reading
To Go in the Dark With a Light
Wendell Berry (1934− ) American essayist, novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic and farmer. He was born in Henry County, Kentucky, the oldest of four children. Both his parents came from families that had farmed the area for at least five … Continue reading
Word Cloud: AIR
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD AIR — it’s all around us, but invisible unless combined with something else. We must have it to live, yet air becomes an alien environment the moment we lift off into it, separating from the Earth. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Air, Arthur Symons and Philip Appleman, Bashō and Inahata Teiko, Ben Okri and Emily Dickinson, Sharlot Mabridth Hall and Christina Rossetti, Shinkichi Takahashi, Simon Armitage and Jimmy Santiago Baca
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A Prose Poem in Honor of International Coffee Day
Ron Padgett (1942 – ) American poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator. His first collection, a mix of poetry and prose called Bean Spasms, was written with Ted Berrigan, and published in 1972. Padgett has since produced over 20 collections of … Continue reading
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