Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Sunday, December 11, 2016

A Minute Meditation

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Ten Thousand Flowers in Spring, The Moon in Autumn Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in...
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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Robert Frost and Sarangapani: Cynical, realistic, or pragmatic?

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As readers of poetry know, there are various types: romance, epic, nature, philosophical . . . There is also another that might be seen, dep...
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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Robert Frost's commemorative poem: Edward Thomas March 3, 1878--April 9, 1917

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Sadly, Edward Thomas is another of those artists, from many countries, whose artistic life was cut short during the Great War.  He enlisted ...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Ars Poetica

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Titles of fictional works, poems, films, and non-fictional works can't be copyrighted, so one frequently finds several works with the sa...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

John Banister Tabb: "Evolution"--a short poem

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Evolution Out of the dark, a shadow,   Then, a spark; Out of the cloud a silence,   Then, a lark; Out of the heart a rapture,   Then,...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Loren Eiseley: "Fly Falcon"

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Fly Falcon All of the falcon kind, the hard travelling                                  talon-clawed ones that for so many years I have...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Lawrence Durrell: "Mneiae

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I think I had mentioned before that Lawrence Durrell is one of my favorite novelists. His "Alexandria Quartet" and "The Avign...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Thomas Hardy: "I Have LIved With Shades"

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Could this perhaps reflect Hardy's own doubts about his place in history? "I Have Lived With Shades"                      ...
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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Edward Thomas: First Known When Lost

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The title of this poem provided the name for Stephen Pentz'  blog,  "First Known When Lost."  I recommend that you visit it, i...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Contentment?

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I think Lao Tzu said something like this: "Those who are content with what they have will always have enough."  The corollary then...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Langston Hughes: two poems

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Empty House It was in the empty house That I came to dwell And in the empty house I found an empty hell. Why is it that an empty hou...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Loren Eiseley: In the Tales to Come

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In The Tales To Come "I have met the echo people, coyotes, once in my youth, deep in a badland canyon, coming upon them unaware.  ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Congruence

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  Ah, the sad expression in the eyes                      of that caged bird--                             envying the butterfly!       ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Emily Dickinson

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This is another of Emily Dickinson 's many poems on death.  It focuses on death as a being restful, a safe shore--a common theme in her ...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Edward Thomas: The Unknown Bird

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I must admit I know little about Edward Thomas, except that he was a friend of Robert Frost, which definitely is a plus for him.  I was only...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Robert Frost: Stopping by Desert Places

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No, I haven't gotten the title wrong.  I just conflated the titles of two of Robert Frost's poems:  "Stopping by Woods on a Sn...
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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Wallace Stevens: The House was Quiet and the World Was Calm

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The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Wa...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Simon J. Ortiz: Small Things Today

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Small Things Today  at my Hesperus Camp   Had a tortilla with some honey at midafternoon.  It was good. Wished I had some chili. Sm...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Thomas Hardy: Architectural Masks

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I have The Wordsworth Poetry Library edition of Thomas Hardy's poetry, The Works of Thomas Hardy , which contains all of his poetry.  E...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

John Burgon: Petra

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As it is John Burgon's birthday today, I thought it appropriate to post this segment of his poem Petra .  John Burgon was an Englis...