Category Archives: Poem if the Day
New Year by Bei Dao
a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year a conductor tattooing darkness listens to the shortest pause hurry a lion into the cage of music hurry stone to masquerade as a recluse moving in parallel nights who’s the visitor? … Continue reading
Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Ralegh
Nature, that washed her hands in milk, And had forgot to dry them, Instead of earth took snow and silk, At love’s request to try them, If she a mistress could compose To please love’s fancy out of those. Her … Continue reading
Milk by Shirley Kaufman
I You pump it from six goats morning and evening and renew your own. The baby is harnessed to your back, her dark head wobbling. Your life and its order that isn’t mine. I’ve come as close to you as … Continue reading
Sparrow by Farnoosh Fathi
This was more like the atmosphere had been pinched, whose chirp was an unexpected gust in a harmonium enough to break all that high horse talk that curdles the atmosphere. While centaurs ate grass and hurdled epitaphs, that chirp in … Continue reading
Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in … Continue reading
One Day by Robert Creeley
One day after another— Perfect. They all fit. Robert Creeley, “One Day” from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945-1975. Copyright © 2006 by Robert Creeley. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: … Continue reading
[little tree] by E. E. Cummings
little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest and were you very sorry to come away? see i will comfort you because you smell so … Continue reading
Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree by George Starbuck
O fury- bedecked! O glitter-torn! Let the wild wind erect bonbonbonanzas; junipers affect frostyfreeze turbans; iciclestuff adorn all cuckolded creation in a madcap crown of horn! It’s a new day; no scapegrace of a sect tidying up the ashtrays playing … Continue reading
Wish for an Overcoat by Alfred Islay Walden
Oh! had I now an overcoat, For I am nearly freezing; My head and lungs are stopped with cold, And often I am sneezing. And, too, while passing through the street, Where merchants all are greeting, They … Continue reading
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
I caught this morning morning’s minionminion favorite, darling; also, an underling or servant, king- dom of daylight’s dauphindauphin prince; a French historical term, along with “chevalier”, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady … Continue reading