Another for Themeless Week, this summer’s eve. From poets.org. More here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/visitation
from The Visitation / by Brigit Pegeen Kelly b. 1951
God sends his tasks
and one does
them or not
Month: June 2014
DPF / Flynn
More themeless. This one’s from APR, May/June 2014.
from Father, Insect / by Nick Flynn b. 1960
I remind my
daughter, You know, before you were
born, I was not
a father.
DPF / O’Hara
For this random-play week, here’s one from Poem A Day ed. by Laurie Sheck, Vol. 2. A music major at Harvard, Frank O’Hara wrote this elegy for Billie Holiday.
from The Day Lady Died / by Frank O’Hara (1926-1966)
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959
DPF / Clifton
Random play / shuffle week. From Poetry 180, ed. by Billy Collins.
from Praise Song / by Lucille Clifton 1936-2010
to my aunt blanche
who rolled from grass to driveway
into the street one sunday morning.
DPF / Hsin
More themeless. From The Penguin Book of Women Poets, edited by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe and Kathleen Weaver.
from Three Poems / by Ping Hsin, b. 1900, trans. by Julia C. Lin
The fishing boats have returned!
Behold the specks of red light above the river!
DPF / Zhdanov
A themeless week with some about fathers. This one’s from Contemporary Russian Poetry, translated by Gerald S. Smith.
from Portait of My Father / by Ivan Zhadanov b. 1948
and on the throne floor with poppyseed thunder
plays a baby
DPF / Moscona
More gardens. This one’s from Mouth to Mouth, Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, edited by Forrest Gander.
from Lost Garden / by Myriam Moscona, b. 1955, trans. by C.D. Wright and Lida Aronne-Amestoy
Black tulips give up the ground that lodges their roots.
DPF / Mallarme
More gardens. This is from the book, French Symbolist Poetry, trans. by CF MacIntyre.
from Prose / by Stephane Mallarme b. 1842
at this hour when we are still,
that too tall for reason grows
the stalk of multiple asphodels
DPF / Levine
More flowers. This one’s in American Poets, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Spring-Summer 2014. And, it’s from his book, The Mercy. More here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/philip-levine
from Northern Motive / by Philip Levine b. 1928
little, delicate white jump-ups that open for
only a few hours, live their lives, turn to dust
before the day ends
DPF / Cosma
More gardens, from Romania. This is from her book, 47 Poems.
from Spring / by Flavia Cosma trans. by Don D. Wilson
I still linger to look
At the white isolation about the garden
And the new bees’ swarming flight
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