For Tuesdays, from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174029
from Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James’s Coffee-House / by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
For red flowers, from Poetry, May 2015. A brief biography of the poet may be found here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/tomaz-salamun#poet
from Ships / by Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Brian Henry
If bees rushed into my face, I’d scratch
at them with my hand and would see
again.
For red flowers, from Poetry, May 2015. A brief biography of the poet may be found here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/tomaz-salamun#poet
from Ships / by Tomaž Šalamun
If bees rushed into my face, I’d scratch
at them with my hand and would see
again.
For weeds more green and baby rabbits, from Poetry Foundation.
from Another Sunday Morning / by Carter Revard, b. 1931
For blues, from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
Poetry Foundation
from Jook Joint Saturday Night / by J. Patrick Lewis, b. 1942
For apples, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Adam Lay I-bounden / by Anonymous (ca. 15th Century)
Ne hadde the apple take been, the apple taken been,
Ne hadde never our Lady aye been Heaven’s queen.
For dark-green shadows, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from A Prison Evening / by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1910-1984) translated by Agha Shahid Ali
Each star a rung,
night comes down the spiral
staircase of evening.
For novelist-poets or poet-novelists, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from The White Horse / by D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on
And the horse looks at him in silence.
For Thoreau – like peace, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from My Life by Water / by Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)
giving
to wild green
arts and letters
For chrysanthemums and books, from Poem A Day, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Solitary Living in Early Winter / by Ema Saiko (1787-1862), translated by Hiroaki Saiko
This innermost room, with little to do,
is adequate to commit my plain life to.
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