20th-Century Poetry

DPF / Dylan

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Well, the elves escaped me. And, if I could figure out why scheduled poems won’t post on schedule, it would be lovely! I thought of doing a week of Faerie Queene, but decided to change over the theme to dreams, so I could continue my attempt not to repeat writers for a bit. This one’s for Sam, Susan, and Dr. Justice. More at:
www. bobdylan.com/us/songs

from Had a Dream About You, Baby / by Bob Dylan

You got a rage wrapped around your head
Wearing a long dress fire engine red

I had a dream about you, baby

DPF / Levine

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More blue. http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/blue-wood.

from In a Blue Wood / by Richard Levine

The couple in Van Gogh’s blue wood is walking
where there is no path

DPF / Mullen

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More blue(s) from a poet born in Alabama in 1953. It also appears that she is a kindred Bruin! The full text is here again: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/muse-drudge-why-these-blues-come-us.

 

 

from Muse & Drudge (why these blues come from us) / by Haryette Mullen

shadows pieced together tears and all
unfurling sheets of bluish music

DPF / Orr

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From Gathering the Bones Together, 1975. More at:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/gregory-orr

from From That Moment / by Gregory Orr

From that moment he breathes more carefully,
like a man who has swallowed a cloud.

DPF / Plumly

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More clouds and sky from a fellow Ohioan. From Beltway Poetry Quarterly, http://washingtonart.com/beltway/plumly.html. More on Plumly at: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/stanley-plumly

from Constable’s Clouds for Keats / by Stanley Plumly

And you write them down in oils because of their
brilliance, and to remember, in its turn, each one.

DPF / Allen

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From APR, May/June 2014. How about a wind-sky-cloud theme for the week? More on Allen at:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dick-allen

from The Zen Master Speaks of Unaccountable Days

It’s true, they went like the wind,
but they also went like the blue sky sometimes does
out over the Atlantic

DPF / Berssenbrugge

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More birds. From The Heat Bird (1983), the book, and from the poem of the same name. More at:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/mei-mei-berssenbrugge

from The Heat Bird / by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

luminous space in their wings showed against the sky
giving each a great delicacy in turns

DPF / Creeley

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More birds. Yes, it’s from Bright Wings again, ed. by Collins. The paintings by Sibley are worth the purchase, too.

from The Birds / by Robert Creeley

I want
to ride that air which makes the sea

seem down there, not the element
in which one thrashes to come up.

DPF / Shvarts

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For Bird Week. Maybe not the raven you were expecting. This one’s from Contemporary Russian Poetry, edited by Gerald S. Smith, 1993.

from The Raven / by Elena Shvarts, trans. by Gerald S. Smith

An old Raven asked for my heart
To take away to its baby ravens

DPF / Collins

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For this week’s back-to-work theme, an easy one: birds. This one’s from Bright Wings, the anthology edited by Billy Collins with paintings by David Allen Sibley. Less than eight months to Christmas. 🙂

from Christmas Sparrow / by Billy Collins

breathing there
among the metallic angels, ceramic apples, stars of yarn