"To match the 'is' and the 'ought' is one of the great philosophical conundrums, but it is the most urgent questions poets, and all of humanity on whose behalf they speak, are having to face today." From her essay "Embodiment and Poetry" in Poetry Ireland News, January/February 2012 … [Read more...]
Helen Hunt Jackson
"O Heart, when Love's sun goes To northward, and the sounds of singing cease, Keep warm by inner fires, and rest in peace. Sleep on content, as sleeps the patient rose. Walk boldly on the white untrodden snows, The winter is the winter's own release." Helen Hunt Jackson from "January" … [Read more...]
from “Funeral” by Amy L. Dengler
"But what if there is no hunger, if hunger is what it is to be alive? Surely, some grace steps in." From her poem "Funeral" in her chapbook At the Corner of Lost and Found. … [Read more...]
Shel Silverstein — Invitation
INVITATION If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer . . . If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, For we have some flax golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! Thanks to Barry Graham and Leah Tallon for their FB post mentioning this poem. … [Read more...]
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Lord Alfred Tennyson In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells] To read this poem in full, check out Selected Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, published by Penguin Classics, or visit the American Academy of Poets. … [Read more...]
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