For a favorite poem from poets.org.
from To My Favorite 17-Year-Old-High-School Girl / by Billy Collins
Poetry
DPF / Collins
For memory, which sometimes deepens and sometimes disappears along the way, and for wishing the best parts would always stay, from poets.org. This poem is for the missing memories of the everyone-and-everyday kind.
from Forgetfulness / by Billy Collins
The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of
DPF / Zucker
For August and the last few summertime days, from the pedestrians. Also, if you like podcasts, please try Rachel Zucker’s podcast, https://www.commonpodcast.com/, “Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)”. The episodes are sometimes more than 90 minutes, and always more than you’d ever expect in the best ways.
from ocean / by Rachel Zucker
She sat on the deck, face in the shade, legs in the sun, reading books by people in the faraway city.
DPF / Carroll
For beaches, cabbages, and kings, from poets.org.
from The Walrus and Carpenter / by Lewis Carroll
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand:
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
‘If this were only cleared away,’
They said, ‘it would be grand!’
DPF / Carroll
For a poetry lesson that ends badly, from Jabberwocky & Other Poems.
from Poeta Fit, non Nascitur / by Lewis Carroll
Don’t state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things
With a sort of mental squint
DPF / Carroll
For wonder-land, from Jabberwocky & Other Poems.
from How Doth… / by Lewis Carroll
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail
DPF / Carroll
For big tests, such as the one I head to today, from Jabberwocky & Other Poems.
from Rules and Regulations / by Lewis Carroll
Learn well your grammar,
And never stammer,
Write well and neatly,
And sing most sweetly
DPF / Carroll
For when up is down and down is up, and for a week of it, from Jabberwocky & Other Poems.
from The Mock Turtle’s Song / by Lewis Carroll
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
DPF / Plath
For if only we had her today, she’d be 84 until her birthday this year, from the St. Martins Press first edition of this (prose) children’s book, The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit.
from The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit / by Sylvia Plath
wonderful
woolly
whiskery
brand-new
mustard-yellow
IT-DOESN’T-MATTER SUIT
DPF / Plath
For her looking back over such a short life, and for myself, though I’ve wished it, we never could have crossed paths, as Plath died 17 days before I was born, from the Faber and Faber first edition of Winter Trees.
from Mystic / by Sylvia Plath
The children leap in their cots.
The sun blooms, it is a geranium.
The heart has not stopped.
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