For the flowers, from Poetry, October-November 1998.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/bertolt-brecht
from The Greenhouse / by Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), translated by Ursula Runde
where the debris of exotic flowers
lies in the shadow of the worn canvas
No Kenney yet? Here go! This one’s from Poetry again, December 2012. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244936
from March / by Richard Kenney b. 1948
Blues! Blooms! The yodel
of the chimney in night wind.
For New York, from Poetry magazine, December 2012.
from A Perfect Mess / by Mary Karr b. 1955
The city feeds on beauty, starves
for it, breeds it.
One on one of the perils of war, from the Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248388
from August, 1914 / by Very Mary Brittain
One of my favorites for teachers, from Poetry 180. When a student asks if s/he missed anything when s/he was absent, you might consider referring the student (4th-12th grade+) to this poem. Full poem here:
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/013.html
from Did I Miss Anything? / by Tom Wayman b. 1945
Nothing. When you are not present
how could something significant occur?
For home, from the Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248188
from Home [“Often I had gone this way before”] / by Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
But now it seemed I never could be
And never had been anywhere else;
And, another poem in lieu of a rain dance. Like rain, miss you, Jane Kenyon. The rest of the poem, here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/heavy-summer-rain
from Heavy Summer Rain / by Jane Kenyon (1947 – 1995)
Everything blooming bows down in the rain:
white irises, red peonies; and the poppies
For Navajo myths, from Chicago Review, Volume 23, Number 4 and Volume 24, Number 1 (1972).
from Spell / by Morton Marcus (1936–2009)
she knows we look
for our father
the sun
For the trees, from his book, The Carrier of Ladders (1967). More on Merwin here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/w-s-merwin
from In the Time of the Blossoms / by W.S. Merwin
all over you leaf skeletons
fine as sparrow bones
From Mouth to Mouth, edited by Forrest Gander (1991).
from Canto Malabar / by Elsa Cross
From the shine of your feet
a wave of light rises
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