poetic bits @poeticbits-blog - Tumblr Blog

...Was moon-shaped helmet left In bog, was condition Of a spirit shorn, childlike & herd. Was Andalusian, ambsace, Bird. Am kept. Was keeper of the badly marred, was furious done god, was Patient, was bad Luck, was nurse.

from “Am Moor” / LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO

#am moor #lucie brock-broido #lit #literature #poet #poets #poetry #poem #poems #poeticbits

Extinguish me from this. I was sixteen for twenty years. By September I will be a ghost And flickering in unison with all the other fireflies in Appalachia, Blinking in the swarm of it...

from “A Girl Ago” / LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO

#a girl ago #lucie brock-broido #poet #poets #poetry #lit #literature #poem #poems #appalachia

Wanting is reposed and plump As the hands of a Romanov child Folded in the doeskin sashes of her lap, Paused before the little war begins...

from “leaflet on wooing” / LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO

#leaflet on wooing #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #lit #literature #lucie brock-broido

We are two clouds glistening in the bottle glass. We are two birds washing in the same mirror.

from RAPUNZEL / anne sexton

#anne sexton #rapunzel #poet #poetry #poets #poem #poems #lit #literature

APRILE / francesco del cossa

#francesco del cossa #aprile #april #fresco #painting #how to be both

APRILE / francesco del cossa

#april #aprile #francesco del cossa #fresco #painting #how to be both

untxt

LomoHome of the Day - _for_petes_sake_

You lie in our bed as if an orchard were over us. You are what’s fallen from those fatal boughs. Where will we go when they send us away from here?

IN EDEN / david ferry

#david ferry #in eden #eden #adam and eve #lit #literature #poet #poets #poem #poems #poetry

Snow: years of anger following hours that float idly down —

from BLIZZARD / william carlos williams

#blizzard #william carlos williams #poet #poets #poem #poems #poetry #lit #literature #poeticbit

...I don’t believe in an afterlife, she says. But after K. died, I thought I might go after her. In case I’m wrong. In case she’s somewhere. Waiting.

from DIAMETER / michelle y. burke

#diameter #demeter #persephone #afterlife #michelle y. burke #poet #poetry #poets #poem #poems #lit #literature

...Tonight, while walking to the car, I said your name to the evening star, clearly pronouncing the syllables to see your name dissipate in the air, evaporate. Only the night air carries your words up to the dead (the ancients wrote): I watched them rise, become remote.

from NIGHT AIR / c. dale young

#c. dale young #night air #poem #poet #poetry #poems #poets #lit #literature #evening star

Dazzling emptiness of the black green end of summer no one running in the yard pulse pulse the absence...

from SEPTEMBER / deborah landau

#poet #poetry #poets #lit #literature #poem #poems #deborah landau #september

The hinge of the year the great gates opening and then slowly slowly closing on us. I always imagine those gates hanging over the ocean fiery over the stone grey waters of evening. We cast what we must change about ourselves onto the waters flowing to the sea. The sins, errors, bad habits, whatever you call them, dissolve...

from NE’ILAH / marge piercy

#marge piercy #ne'ilah #lit #literature #poet #poetry #poets

poetsorg

National Poetry Month begins tomorrow! Here are some events happening around the country for the week of March 28 to April 3: http://bit.ly/1MHdMxF

Trending Blogs

Recently Viewed Blogs

poetic bits