For Jean Justice, Dr. Justice’s wife, who died March 30, 2016. Dr. Justice was the Chair on my Masters Thesis Committee at UF. From Collected Poems.
from Poem [“This poem is not addressed to you”] / by Donald Justice
For Day 2 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org. Will be looking for poems about poetry this month.
from Five Poems about Poetry / by George Oppen
Might rescue us, gathered
In the smallest corners
For the second of two for the first day of National Poetry Month, 2016, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Wasteland / by T.S. Eliot
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
For one of two for the first day of National Poetry Month, 2016, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Lilacs / by Amy Lowell
For the day before the cruelest month and National-Poetry-Month Eve, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Spring Day / by Amy Lowell
The sky is blue and high. A crow flaps by the window, and there is a whiff of tulips and narcissus in the air.
For lifting spirits, from The Eternal Ones of the Dream.
from Behind the Milk Bottle / by James Tate
As for pillagers, think twice:
behind the milk bottle another milk bottle
and a nest of unruly ribbons
and a ghost who barks at airplanes.
Because he always brightens my day no matter how dark, this one’s for and from Berryman, from The Dream Songs.
from Dream Song #112 / by John Berryman
for every word she utters everywhere
shows her good soul, as true as a healed bone,–
being part of what I meant to say.
For the day and the centennial of the poem’s title event, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Easter, 1916 / by William Butler Yeats
For home, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Home Movies: A Sort of Ode / by Mary Jo Salter
Here
For one of the wonderful poetry aunts, from The Complete Poems.
from At the Fishhouses / by Elizabeth Bishop
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