More themeless. From The Penguin Book of Women Poets, edited by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe and Kathleen Weaver.
from Three Poems / by Ping Hsin, b. 1900, trans. by Julia C. Lin
The fishing boats have returned!
Behold the specks of red light above the river!
A themeless week with some about fathers. This one’s from Contemporary Russian Poetry, translated by Gerald S. Smith.
from Portait of My Father / by Ivan Zhadanov b. 1948
and on the throne floor with poppyseed thunder
plays a baby
More gardens. This one’s from Mouth to Mouth, Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, edited by Forrest Gander.
from Lost Garden / by Myriam Moscona, b. 1955, trans. by C.D. Wright and Lida Aronne-Amestoy
Black tulips give up the ground that lodges their roots.
More flowers. This one’s in American Poets, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Spring-Summer 2014. And, it’s from his book, The Mercy. More here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/philip-levine
from Northern Motive / by Philip Levine b. 1928
little, delicate white jump-ups that open for
only a few hours, live their lives, turn to dust
before the day ends
More gardens, from Romania. This is from her book, 47 Poems.
from Spring / by Flavia Cosma trans. by Don D. Wilson
I still linger to look
At the white isolation about the garden
And the new bees’ swarming flight
I think I will go with weather this week. Feeling likes it’s going to be a really tempestuous one here, as it is the final week of the elementary year. And, since my brain is feeling foggy in advance of the maelstrom, here’s a favorite fog poem.
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/fog
from Fog / by Carl Sandburg b. 1878
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
More silence for Ms. Angelou, once silent for years, but now forever not. With all her words scattered near and far and everywhere translated in between, never ever silent forever. And, more here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178944
from Kin / by Maya Angelou b. 1928
More on silence. Or, “Moore” on silence. No Marianne Moore yet?! Fathers and daughters: here’s a quote from her father, below. More/Moore here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/silence-2
from Silence / by Marianne Moore b. 1887
“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.”
More silence. And, more here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ghazal-silence
from Ghazal in Silence / by Mimi Khalvati b.1944
Three syllables of equal weight, equal stress,
dropped in a well, keep falling short in silence.
Silence for this week. Love this one. More here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/what-he-thought
from What He Thought / by Heather McHugh
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