DPF / Plath

For peace in all its incarnations, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Tulips / by Sylvia Plath

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.

DPF / Hoagland

For the off-kilter moments that somehow equal love, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Windchime / by Tony Hoagland

She goes out to hang the windchime
in her nightie and her work boots.
It’s six-thirty in the morning
and she’s standing on the plastic ice chest
tiptoe to reach the crossbeam of the porch

DPF / Cummings

For the upcoming holiday, from poetryfoundation.org.

from [love is more thicker than forget] / by e. e. cummings (1894–1962)

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

DPF / Musgrave

For the last day of the 2015-2016 football season. It’s always sad to see the season go, but I do like fairytale endings. Today’s poem’s from poetryfoundation.org.

from Dew / by David Musgrave

Half their lives are spent in clouds
         of condensation or the cold heat
of a winter sun where even the crowds
         seem like droplets on the concrete
rose of the stadium.

DPF / Valentine

For the upcoming holiday, thinking of Jean Valentine, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Sanctuary / by Jean Valentine

Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to
follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.

DPF / Howe

For planets, like the ones we research with our fifth grader every weekend, from poetryfoundation.org. Did I say, “every weekend”? I meant every weekend.

from Three Persons / by Fanny Howe

Their winter systems
sparkle like the diamonds
that pelt Neptune.

DPF/ Ali

For rain and more rain for our drought, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Rain / by Kazim Ali

The pages of my notebook soak, then curl. I’ve written:
“Yogis opened their mouths for hours to drink the rain.”

DPF / Herrera

For and from our U.S. poet laureate, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Water Water Water Wind Water / by Juan Felipe Herrera

alabama wind calls alabama
and the roofs blow across red clouds
inside the divine spiral
there is a voice

 

DPF / Padgett

For sonnets and muses, from How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett.

from The Art of the Sonnet / by Ron Padgett

Last night I said hello
to the little muse
the smaller than usual muse

DPF / Goodfellow

For beautiful comma beautiful punctuation comma from a new and lovely book comma Mendeleev’s Mandala. Thank you, Jessica!

from The Function of the Comma is to Separate / by Jessica Goodfellow

For instance: the clock in this room is loud comma relentless comma repetitive comma annoying