For the Sunday that was, from The Rain in Portugal.
from On Rhyme / by Billy Collins
That’s why instead of recalling today
that it pours mostly in Spain,
I am going to picture the rain in Portugal,
how it falls on the hillside vineyards,
on the surface of deep harbors
For language, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Claribel / by Alfred Lord Tennyson
For the ocean and its persistence, from Selected Poems, edited by Richard S. Kennedy.
from 5 (maggie and milly and molly and may) / by E.E. Cummings
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and
For the season, though I see some of our Colorado friends have snow today, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Spring / by Gerard Manley Hopkins
For running and Hermes and you running and she, among others, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Runner / by Allen Grossman
He was running under the stars. The moon
Had not risen,
but he did not doubt it would
Rise as he ran.
For the excitement of awaiting the next race, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Joy / by Maurine Smith
Joy, Joy, run over me
Like water over a shining stone
For Poetry, from The Rain in Portugal.
from Dream Life / by Billy Collins
Poetry works long hours
and rarely speaks to the tailor
as she bends to repair the fancy costumes
of various allegorical figures
who were told by Thrift how little she charges.
For Happy Mother’s Day, from Selected Poems.
from Portraits: 2 / by E. E. Cummings
if there are any heavens mother will (all by herself) have
one.
For art and life turning their backs on each other and walking in opposite directions as happens in mirrors every day, from Poetry, July/August 2016.
from the usual rilke: Rilke’s Separation / by Ernst Jandl
the unusual rilke
and the usual rilke
would have to separate
For Ohio, from Collected Poems.
from The Jewel / by James Wright
When I stand upright in the wind,
My bones turn to dark emeralds.
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