a stretch of untamed grass with cattails rising high on a freshly mowed surface “perhaps that’s where they keep their lions,” I say. More at http://jddehartwritings.blogspot.com.
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I confess the truth is every day every night every season I want to fall asleep in your lap listening to the wonderful rhythm of your heart Love isn’t blind love is all-seeing The post Love Is All-Seeing | Mónika Tóth appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
On Tuesday, February 13, 2024, the poet Joseph Harrison died at home in Baltimore, not quite five months after a diagnosis of brain cancer. He was 66 years old. Just days before the end, he had received an advance copy of his Collected Poems from Waywiser Press, and although he could no longer read, he…
Hey, all you old timers! Remember when Kenneth Koch wrote “Sixty Plays” or whatever it was called? They were hilarious little premises, only one or two sentences long, plus a title — like, “An elderly homosexual describes the geography and culture of Mexico City to a Norwegian farm girl.” That’s one that stuck in my…
leaves paper the sky; spreading hands shielding the blaze of a sultry day from the tinder box crumble threading our journey through the trees as pages turning diary like to once before when youth’s lantern faces gleaming we shone with song more deliciously ardent than the apple buds’ danced imaginings. the circle full, the trunks…
Rugged, ragged, thread bare, shocking, We all have these Unmentionables hidden in our lives. Everyone just tries to pretend they are made of pure unblemished silk. The post Unmentionables | Edgar Law appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
Negativity is not always overtly depressive, Positivity is not always overtly happy. Negativity eats away, piece by piece. It hides in the banal. Its disguised by layers of colour, Noise, applause. Negativity is drip fed, unnoticed. The bland The ordinary The acceptable Even the comfortable. Negativity keeps you in your place, Convinces you How good…
