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straightforwardly) wrote2014-06-12 01:21 pm
straightforwardly) wrote2014-06-12 01:21 pm
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0024 | poetry linkdump number three
Because I love poetry, and I'm about to go to the dentist, and why not?
"Water" by Carol Ann Duffy
Water. The times I'd call as a child
for a drink, till you'd come, sit on the edge
of the bed in the dark, holding my hand,
just as we held hands now and you died.
"Empty Space" by Amrita Pritam
There were two kingdoms only:
the first of them threw out both him and me.
The second we abandoned.
"Deceiving the Gods" by Ellen Bass
We pitied them, but now I see
they were always so much smarter than we were.
"A Lesson In Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani
Astonishment fills his eyes:
"... But this is a prison, Father,
Don't you know, how to draw a bird?"
And I tell him: "Son, forgive me.
I've forgotten the shapes of birds."
"Prism" by Louise Gluck
I’m in a bed. This man and I,
we are suspended in the strange calm
sex often induces. Most sex induces.
Longing, what is that? Desire, what is that?
In the window, constellations of summer.
Once, I could name them.
"Dark August" by Derek Walcott
Don't you know I love you but am hopeless
at fixing the rain ? But I am learning slowly
to love the dark days, the steaming hills,
the air with gossiping mosquitoes,
and to sip the medicine of bitterness,
"What Remains" by Ellery Akers
their hooves clinked when they crossed the shale,
and when they walked up the beach,
their hoof prints filled with seawater.
Each pool held a moon.
To Growing Girls Who Dream of Neverland by S.T. Gibson
There is magic, though, in lining your eyes,
and spells to be cast in sharpening your tongue.
Come to me, darling, and I’ll show you how queens carry themselves.
I will teach you how to wrangle womanhood and tame it into a lapdog,
to recognize pirates without their hooks and rapier them with words
"I Ask My Mother to Sing" By Li-Young Lee
But I love to hear it sung;
how the waterlilies fill with rain until
they overturn, spilling water into water,
then rock back, and fill with more.
"Other Things" by Alvin Pang
The correct answer to a mirror is always, yes.
"Water" by Carol Ann Duffy
Water. The times I'd call as a child
for a drink, till you'd come, sit on the edge
of the bed in the dark, holding my hand,
just as we held hands now and you died.
"Empty Space" by Amrita Pritam
There were two kingdoms only:
the first of them threw out both him and me.
The second we abandoned.
"Deceiving the Gods" by Ellen Bass
We pitied them, but now I see
they were always so much smarter than we were.
"A Lesson In Drawing" by Nizar Qabbani
Astonishment fills his eyes:
"... But this is a prison, Father,
Don't you know, how to draw a bird?"
And I tell him: "Son, forgive me.
I've forgotten the shapes of birds."
"Prism" by Louise Gluck
I’m in a bed. This man and I,
we are suspended in the strange calm
sex often induces. Most sex induces.
Longing, what is that? Desire, what is that?
In the window, constellations of summer.
Once, I could name them.
"Dark August" by Derek Walcott
Don't you know I love you but am hopeless
at fixing the rain ? But I am learning slowly
to love the dark days, the steaming hills,
the air with gossiping mosquitoes,
and to sip the medicine of bitterness,
"What Remains" by Ellery Akers
their hooves clinked when they crossed the shale,
and when they walked up the beach,
their hoof prints filled with seawater.
Each pool held a moon.
To Growing Girls Who Dream of Neverland by S.T. Gibson
There is magic, though, in lining your eyes,
and spells to be cast in sharpening your tongue.
Come to me, darling, and I’ll show you how queens carry themselves.
I will teach you how to wrangle womanhood and tame it into a lapdog,
to recognize pirates without their hooks and rapier them with words
"I Ask My Mother to Sing" By Li-Young Lee
But I love to hear it sung;
how the waterlilies fill with rain until
they overturn, spilling water into water,
then rock back, and fill with more.
"Other Things" by Alvin Pang
The correct answer to a mirror is always, yes.