For magicians, from The Eternal Ones of the Dream.
from Saturdays Are for Bathing Betsy / by James Tate
How each sort of animal and
plant prevents itself from returning to dust
just a little while longer while I transfer some
assets to a region where there are no thinking creatures,
just worshipping ones. They oscillate along like magicians,
deranged seaweed fellows and their gals
PIA: November 28, 2015.
For wishes, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Star light, star bright / by Anonymous
PIA: from November 30, 2014.
For seasons, from Poetry, December 2014.
from The Forecast / by Wendy Xu b. 1987
little shimmer, little wilt startled
from out the arranging field
For a Tennyson kind of day, from Tennyson’s Poems, 1863.
from Sea Dreams. An Idyl. / by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Birdie, rest a little longer,
Till the little wings are stronger.
For honoring whatever you believe in, from a poet who believes in God, for Thanksgiving, from poetryfoundation.org.
from A Thanksgiving to God, for his House / by Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
For runners big and small, from The Twentieth Century Children’s Treasury, edited by Jack Prelutsky, and illustrated by Meilo So.
from Running Song / by Marci Ridlon
How the trees are
whizzing by.
Rushing rivers
run forever.
May I can
if I try.
For another rain dance for our empty canals, from Lupercal.
from Crow Hill / by Ted Hughes
The farms are oozing craters in
Sheer sides under the sodden moors:
When it is not wind it is rain
PIA: from an October 27.
For the season, from Ariel.
from The Moon and the Yew Tree / by Sylvia Plath
This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.
The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
For spaceships? from poetryfoundation.org.
from Aliens / by Amy Lowell
For the season, from Poetry, April 2016.
from “Leaving Behind” / by Martha Collins
outside my window: locust, cloth
of gold on the ground: its yellow
tabs linden hearts sweetgum stars
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