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Panegyric | Sanjeev Sethi
You define heartbreak muss and all things mingy required in this rigmarole. You limn for me love its rites and residues. Unclaimed you abide in a dead part of me. You will last longer than me. You live in my lines. The post Panegyric | Sanjeev Sethi appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source…
Since Way Back When [by Michael Lally]
Since Way Back When Way back in the last century in 1992 when I was a mere 50 I slipped in between the clean sheets of my bed and sighed: Thank you, thank you. As I always do, so grateful to not be sleeping in the back seat of my ’56 Pontiac on Mount Ranier…
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: September 27, 2023
Today I wanted to give a shout out to The Unsung Masters Series, which brings forgotten poets to a whole new audience. The most recent volume is about Bert Meyers (1928-1979), a poet new to me. Edited by Dana Levin and Adele Williams, the book reprints poems from Meyers’ out-of-print volumes alongside commentary by critics,…
Riddle for June 8th
What do they have in common: Robert Schumann Frank Lloyd Wright Barbara Bush Nancy Sinatra & Julianna Margulies? Related Stories D-Day, June 6, 1944: “I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle.” Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
So Ordinary | Jasper
So ordinary. All of them the same. Living in lifeless boxes, Doing the same things In unison, laughing at The same awful things, Talking about nothing, Hating the same people, Afraid of everything, Driving the same loud Metal machines, Not an original thought In the bunch, a terrible Gathering of mediocrity Fancying itself great. The…
How the Day Went… | Dan Tindall
(How the day went from the blissful early morning to sweeping sunset, without pause or patter, without sugar or smoke, without the benefit of a sudden departure from the script.) We boarded the caravan some little time ago One door each way Frosted glass panels Dim light from outside Illuminating the drab nylon covers On…