Showing posts with label a poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a poem. Show all posts
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Emily Dickinson: "Success is counted sweetest"

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No. 67 Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the p...
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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Cavafy: "Desires"

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Cavafy is the poet celebrated by Lawrence Durrell in his "The Alexandria Quartet."  It was those frequent references to him and hi...
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Friday, September 15, 2017

W. H. Auden: "Their Lonely Betters"

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THEIR LONELY BETTERS As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper th...
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Saturday, July 29, 2017

William Oldys: "On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup"

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On a Fly Drinking Out of his Cup Busy, curious, thirsty fly! Drink with me and drink as I: Freely welcome to my cup, Couldst thou sip ...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Paul Lawrence Dunbar: "The Mystery"

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THE MYSTERY I was not; now I am--a few days hence I shall not be; I fain would look before And after, but can neither do; some Power Or...
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Sunday, July 16, 2017

Myoe: On the virtues of tea

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An paean to tea Tea has the blessing of all deities Tea promotes filial piety Tea drives away all evil spirits Tea banishes drowsiness ...
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Monday, July 3, 2017

Carl Sandburg: "The Mist"

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THE MIST I am the mist, the impalpable mist, Back of the thing you seek. My arms are long, Long as the reach of time and space. Some...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Robert Frost's Invitation

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The Pasture I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clea...
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Saturday, June 17, 2017

Ryokan's Irony?

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Done begging in a rundown village, I make my way home past green boulders. Late sun hides behind western peaks; pale moonlight shines on...
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Monday, May 8, 2017

Wallace Stevens: "The Poems of Our Climate"

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Wallace Stevens is a very unique and perplexing poet, or so he seems to me.   Some of his poems are straightforward while others force me to...
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

The Eagle

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     Hokusai:  Eagle in Flight The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands; C lose to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd ...
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Li Po: "Drinking Alone in Moonlight"

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I have already posted this poem, but it was a different translation.  I have heard the saying, "In vino veritas,"when means, I gue...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Ryokan: the ultimate enlightenment?

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Is he enlightened or just lazy? Without a jot of ambition left I let my nature flow where it will. There are ten days of rice in my bag...
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Ryokan: time and memory

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This poem by Ryokan seems very appropriate for this time of year. Time passes, There is no way We can hold it back--- Why, then, do th...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Elizabeth Jennings: "The Diamond Cutter"

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Here's another one by Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) , a recent discovery, for me anyway.  She was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, and mov...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

John Haines: "If the Owl Calls Again"

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I'm not sure why, but this poem struck a chord in me.  I know nothing about John Haines; I had never even heard of him until I read this...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Lawrence Durrell: "A Bowl of Roses"

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A Bowl of Roses 'Spring' says your Alexandrian poet ' Means time of the remission of the rose.' Now here at this tatter...
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Friday, September 9, 2016

Elizabeth Jennings: "The Enemies"

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Here is a strange, enigmatic poem by Elizabeth Jennings, a poet of whom I know nothing.  I shall have to do some digging around. The Enem...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Thomas Hardy: "Afterwards"

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Here is another gem of Thomas Hardy's that I just discovered recently while browsing through the collection of his poems.  Afterwards...
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Wendell Berry: "To the Unseeable Animal"

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Here's a poem celebrating an unusual animal.  I don't think I've ever read about one like this before.   To the Unseeable A...
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