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1 day ago · The bridge was there for all five Forward poems. You just didn’t like the look of it so you didn’t fully engage. Nonetheless, each of the poets was absolutely engaged in writing them. Menos: Oh this is tricky. One has to examine one’s prejudices. Re the Derek Chan poem, mine are above.
1 day ago · The silk inside me was scooped out, not to wind. around my lungs. One little moon ovary, a bead. swollen to an orange, removed, bye bye. miss american pie. Afterwards, it was a slumber. celebration, the Atlantic in the distance. C’est la guerre, everyone had been afraid of the C. word, killing my son, the quiet of it.
2 days ago · From "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa. "The sound of the weather/ Is everyone weeping.//. Everyone is incidental./. Everyone weeps.//. The tears of today/ Will put out tomorrow.//. The rain is ashes./. The days are beautiful." From "Hum" by Ann Lauterbach. A collection of poems that offer space for remembrance and reflection in the wake of tragedy.
3 days ago · For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss, And you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.
Sep 3, 2024 · 7 Poems For Letting Go and Welcoming Change. The fall season encourages us to embrace the art of letting go. Change can be painful, and sometimes—despite our desire for it—we resist it. Letting go is often not a passive choice but a very active one that requires our time, effort, and energy.
2 days ago · There’s a kind of assured clarity that seems to be shared between these two poems. In both, metaphors divided the friends (“drifting” for Wei, “bright lights of progress” for McNish), and those abstractions now somehow seem paltry in the face of real details like the grey hairs at temples, watching the leaves turn together, or the practicalities of sorting out sleeping arrangements ...
3 days ago · John Ashbery’s “The Problem of Anxiety” is an emotional poem that intertwines themes of depression and aging. The poem is short and seemingly straightforward. However, there are many contradictions within Ashbery’s poem that allude to the narrator’s uneasy and distorted state of mind. I want to start by analyzing the poem’s tone.
