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Marianne Moore's "No Swan So Fine"
Today’s poem pits art against reality, with the French monarchy as the only clear loser. Happy reading.
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6 months, 3 weeks ago
Robert Frost's "Not to Keep"
If Robert Frost were a musician, today’s poem might be a B-side to one of his better-known poems. Happy reading.
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6 months, 3 weeks ago
Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats”
“may you kiss / the wind then turn from it” Today’s poem is a benediction for boats and, maybe, a lot of other things. Happy reading.
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6 months, 4 weeks ago
Pablo Neruda's "Ode to My Socks"
Today’s poem is a contemplation of sometimes-essential footwear that blossoms unexpectedly into a proverb on utility and beauty. Happy reading.
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7 months ago
William Stafford's "A Message from the Wanderer"
“That’s the way everything in the world is waiting.” Happy reading.
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7 months ago
F. S. Flint's "London, my beautiful"
Today’s poem falls somewhere in the middle of a Venn diagram of haiku and English ode. Happy reading.
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7 months ago
Scott Cairns' "Idiot Psalm 12"
Today’s poem is a song of (sometimes) hidden nearness. Happy reading.
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7 months, 1 week ago
Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life"
Today’s poem is a frank examination of words and their paradoxical power to create and destroy intimacy, bringing forth the deepest self or walling i…
7 months, 1 week ago
Jane Taylor's "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"
Today’s poem has taken on a life of its own; we return, for a moment, to its humble beginnings. Happy reading.
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7 months, 1 week ago
Dylan Thomas' "Prologue"
Today’s poem, unusual in its structure and rhyme, turned out to be more of an epilogue: Thomas composed it for inclusion in his Collected Poems, no m…
7 months, 2 weeks ago