For sugar and mysteries, from poetryfoundation.org.
from To Mrs. K_____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris / by Helena Maria Williams (1761-1827)
For magic surely lurks in this,
A cake that tells of vanished bliss;
Month: December 2015
DPF / Teasdale
For stars and wise men, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Christmas Carol / by Sara Teasdale
The angels came from heaven high
And they were clad with wings;
And lo, they brought a joyful song
The host of heaven sings.
DPF / Neale
For the season, from the 19th century, and from poetryfoundation.org.
from Good King Wenceslas / by John Mason Neale (1818–1866)
Good King Wenceslas look’d out,
On the Feast of Stephen;
When the snow lay round about,
Deep, and crisp, and even:
Brightly shone the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Gath’ring winter fuel.
DPF / Taylor
For the millions of them, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / by Ann Taylor (1783–1824 )
TWINKLE, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are !
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
DPF / Johnston
For holidays and gold, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Golden Hinde / by Devin Johnston
With a telescope, my sister spies
the erstwhile chemist of Argonne
who left his post to polish glass.
As penance, he engraves
a glyph of hydrogen
DPF / Woods
For Barbies and green hills, from poetryfoundation.org.
from beverly, huh. / by Jamila Woods
your parents
must have grown
on trees
DPF / Christensen
For forests and peace, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Light: Winter / by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied
all will be one will be one this year
wings and ice will be one in the world
all will be changed in the world:
the boat will hear its steps on the ice
the war will hear its war on the ice
DPF / King
For golden things, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Gilded Zero / by Amy King
Only open homes & woods & pansies’ blue ledges
can lead the zero with his only arms
to embrace himself in open fields for all to gape upon.
DPF / Kim
For cranberries and purple fencepickets, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Couple Next Door / by Suji Kwock Kim, b. 1969
Sassafras & pickerel, black locust
& meadowsweet, wild sarsaparilla,
checkerberry, starflower.
& meadowsweet, wild sarsaparilla,
checkerberry, starflower.
DPF / Sze
For all the twinkling lights, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Ten Thousand to One / by Arthur Sze, b. 1950
The Phoenicians guarded a recipe that required
ten thousand murex shells to make
an ounce of Tyrian purple.
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