Featured Poem 5/20 – “To Dorothy”
To Dorothy by Marvin Bell You are not beautiful, exactly. You are beautiful, inexactly. You let a weed grow by the mulberry and a mulberry grow by the house. So close, in the personal...
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Limp Noodles of Poetry
My darlings, are you all burnt out after NaPo? Come here and I’ll soothe that soul.
Featured Poem 5/13 – “Arabic”
Arabic by Naomi Shihab Nye The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling to say, “Until you speak Arabic, you will not understand pain.” Something to do with the back of the head, an...
Featured Club: Poetry
Are you a poet? Are you an aficionado of poetic verse? Are you curious about the form? If the answer to any of the above questions is “Yes”, then the Poetry club is the...
Featured Poem 5/6 – “In Flight”
In Flight by Jennifer K. Sweeney The Himalayan legend says there are beautiful white birds that live completely in flight. They are born in the air, must learn to fly before falling and...
Featured Poem 4/29 – “Anarchy”
Anarchy by Carlos Oliva translated by Anthony Seidman On these streets where love is a word which one doesn’t see anywhere I discovered a state of being as beautiful as a flower...
Featured Poem 4/22 – from Six Czech Poets
by Pavel Kolmacka translated by Alexandra Büchler from Six Czech Poets Still midday air, the breeze asleep in the nest of a tree. Before long God will give us a...
Featured Poem 4/15 – “Under the Harmonious Moon”
Under the Harmonious Moon by Bavuudorj Tsogdorj translated by Lyn Coffin You exist so far from my world But I have reason to want never to come to you. I want not to...
