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.
20th-Century Poetry
DPF / Lawrence
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.
DPF / Niedecker
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
DPF / Axiote
For window shines, from Greek Women Poets, translated by Eleni Fourtouni.
from The Homestead / by Melpo Axiote
–What secret
does the sea hold? What answer?
We know nothing
DPF / Ferlinghetti
For Ferris wheels, from Poetry, 2015.
from Beatitudes Visuales Mexicanas / by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In early morning in the great garden of Xalapa, with its terraces and immense jacaranda trees, pines + palms, there are black birds with cries like bells
DPF / Edminster
For silence and stars, from Villanelles, edited by Marie-Elizabeth Mali and Annie Finch.
from Martha and Mary / by John Edminster (b. 1943)
For in the end all waters into one sea pour,
As all stars vanish with the rising sun.
DPF / Joyce
For one best known for his novel but very lovely in short stories and poetry as well, from Villanelles, edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali.
from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / by James Joyce (1882-1941)
Above the flame the smoke of praise
Goes up from ocean rim to rim.
DPF / Wieners
For the “crysalis” and beyond, from Poetry, June 2015.
from A poem for trapped things / by John Wieners
The blue diamonds on your back
are too beautiful
DPF / Anania
For the day and its remembrances, from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178467
from Memorial Day / by Michael Anania, b. 1939
fingers cramped red at the knuckles, discolored
nails, fresh soil for new plants, old rosaries
DPF / Brainard
For brevity, from Great American Prose Poems, edited by David Lehman.
from History / by Joe Brainard (1942-1994)
almost every day is the anniversary of
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