Month: May 2014

DPF / Hejinian

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Dreams. Dreams this week, silence next. The theme of “silence,” that is. As in, being silenced; arguably, the opposite of dreams.

from The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding] / by Lyn Hejinian

How many strangers could circle the space while speaking of nostalgia
And of wolves in the hills?

DPF / Dylan

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Well, the elves escaped me. And, if I could figure out why scheduled poems won’t post on schedule, it would be lovely! I thought of doing a week of Faerie Queene, but decided to change over the theme to dreams, so I could continue my attempt not to repeat writers for a bit. This one’s for Sam, Susan, and Dr. Justice. More at:
www. bobdylan.com/us/songs

from Had a Dream About You, Baby / by Bob Dylan

You got a rage wrapped around your head
Wearing a long dress fire engine red

I had a dream about you, baby

DPF / Spenser

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For this week, I’m looking for elves. This one’s from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Fourth Edition, Volume I. This poem’s a most famous place to find a 16th-century “elf.” (The post for May 17th was “scheduled” but reverted to a draft. Chronologically, my last bird and first elf, then, will fly in one right after the other.)

from The Faerie Queene / by Edmund Spenser

‘Goe caytive Elfe, him quickly overtake,
And soone redeeme from his long wandering woe…’

DPF / Field

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And, more blue. Irresistible title. Full text here: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/blue-beautiful-amy-story-so-90s

from Blue Is Beautiful Amy but the Story Is So the ‘90s / by Farrah Field

Everyone wanted to see a movie where the woman turns to stone.

DPF / Levine

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More blue. http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/blue-wood.

from In a Blue Wood / by Richard Levine

The couple in Van Gogh’s blue wood is walking
where there is no path

DPF / Halebsky

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More unexpectedly blue.

from My Father Remembers Blue Zebras / by Judy Halebsky

He knows about the rainshadow
and the string of islands off the coast of Vancouver

DPF / Mullen

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More blue(s) from a poet born in Alabama in 1953. It also appears that she is a kindred Bruin! The full text is here again: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/muse-drudge-why-these-blues-come-us.

 

 

from Muse & Drudge (why these blues come from us) / by Haryette Mullen

shadows pieced together tears and all
unfurling sheets of bluish music

DPF / Komunyakaa

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Blue blues. The full text can be found at poets.org.

from Blue Dementia / by Yusef Komunyakaa

Am I passing another
Lucky Thompson or Marion Brown
Cornered by a blue dementia

DPF / Nordgren

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More blue. From Ploughshares, Spring 2014.

from Ghost Lessons / by Sarah Rose Nordgren

… the tender ward

and inner structures bordered
by a bright blue membrane.

DPF / Snyder

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Maybe a blue theme for the week? Not sure if I can do it, but will try.

from Magpie’s Song / by Gary Snyder

“Here in the mind, brother
Turquoise blue.