by Richard Foerster What was given came without the usual reasons——the earth. that day having completed no meaningful circuit of the sun. ...
by Lucie Brock-Broido In thrice 10,000 seasons, I will come back to this world In a white cotton dress. Kingdom of After My Own Heart. Kingdom of Frag...
by Ann Stanford My house is torn down—— Plaster sifting, the pillars broken, Beams jagged, the wall crushed by the bulldozer. The whole ro...
by Jalalu'l-din Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks) What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest. What was told the ...
by Jack Prelutsky "My stomach's full of butterflies!" lamented Dora Diller. Her mother sighed. "That's no surprise, you ate a c...
by Peter Meinke We shouldn‘t worship suffering: the world’s a spinning rack where suffering indicates all goes well we‘re alive and ...
by Clayton Eshleman Unicellular sac pressed fingertips, two dots, a me row——or a herow? a meandering red moist blastospore, a multicellula...
by Dennis Lee They never stop asking me "What will you be?—— A doctor, a dancer, A diver at sea?" They never stop bugging me: &q...
by Matthew ArnoldThe sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; on the French coast, the lightGleams and is gone; the c...
by Michael Longley Brown lark beside the sun Supervising Carrigskeewaun In late May, marsh marigolds And yellow flags, trout at the low Bridge hesitat...