Showing posts with label Poems (Entire). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poems (Entire). Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Poem of the Day: When people say, “we have made it through worse before”

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When people say, “we have made it through worse before” all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of th...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Poem of the Day: Notre-Dame de Paris de Gérard de Nerval

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NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS Notre-Dame est bien vieille : on la verra peut-être Enterrer cependant Paris qu'elle a vu naître ; Mais, dans qu...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Poem of Some Day That Turns Out to Be the Poem of Today

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W. S. Merwin died today. ( NY Times obituary .) Here's a poem he wrote for the occasion. For the Anniversary of My Death Every yea...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Poem of the Day: Four Strategic Lines

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Four Strategic Lines There, four strategic lines are anagrams. I'm rearranging letters. A chaos features in the rule, frames reason...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

Poem of the Day Year: Good Bones

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Good Bones Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advi...
Wednesday, November 09, 2016

"Neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain"

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Dover Beach   The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Glea...
Tuesday, November 08, 2016

"The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing"

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Election Day, November 1884 If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, 'Twould not be you, Niagar...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Poem of the Day: Archaic Torso of Apollo

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Archaic Torso of Apollo We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brill...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Kay Ryan Week: A Sequel

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Four-plus years ago I went on a binge of posting Kay Ryan poems .  The other day I saw her latest book — Erratic Things (2015) * — on the ...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

A Century Past

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Easter, 1916 I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have pa...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Now We Are Six

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Happy Birthday to my beloved son, Joseph Saperstein Frug, who is six today. When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I wa...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Poem of the Day

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Mirror in February The day dawns with scent of must and rain, Of opened soil, dark trees, dry bedroom air. Under the fading lamp, half ...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Poem of the Day: Louis Macneice, "Charon"

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Charon The conductor’s hands were black with money: Hold on to your ticket, he said, the inspector’s Mind is black with suspicion, and ...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Poem of the Day: Langston Hughes, Song for Billie Holiday

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Song for Billie Holiday What can purge my heart         Of the song         And the sadness? What can purge my heart         But the s...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Summer and Spring and Fall: Recent Silences, and a Poem

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Been quiet 'round here this summer.  No particular reason: all my thoughts have either been briefer than blog length, or longer (i.e. t...
Monday, May 06, 2013

Poem of the Day: Merwin's For the Anniversary of My Death

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For the Anniversary of My Death Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence...
Sunday, May 05, 2013

Poem of the Day: Hopkins's Carrion Comfort

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Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist -- slack they may be -- these last strands of man In me or, most ...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

Poem of the Day: Yeats's The Second Coming

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The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hol...
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Friday, May 03, 2013

Poem of the Day: Ryan's A Certain Kind of Eden

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A Certain Kind of Eden It seems like you could, but you can’t go back and pull the roots and runners and replant. It’s all too deep fo...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

Poem of the Day: Frost's Acquainted with the Night

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Acquainted With the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain --and back in rain. I have outwalked ...