Someone enters your life ( Read more... )

A Sleepless Night

by Philip Levine

April, and the last of the plum blossoms ( Read more... )

I hate to be this person, but I am going through a terrible breakup of a three-year relationship and I would love poetry to make me feel better. Any poetry! Poetry about love, loss, breakups - or just poetry you read when you're having a tough time, poetry that cheers you up, anything. I know this is rather general but if you can't ask your ( Read more... )

19 years old and going nowhere ( Read more... )

Hello all! Fall is here in Chicago and I need some fall poems. Things about the air getting colder, things dying, school starting, life changing, etc. Let's get a bunch in one thread so we can all get in the mood for Halloween and Thanksgiving and SCARVES and cute jackets and cider and dragging our significant others to pumpkin patches. AHH I love ( Read more... )

Philip LevineRenaming the Kings ( Read more... )

Everything
by Philip Levine

Lately the wind burns
the last leaves and evening
comes too late to be
of use, lately I learned
that the year has turned
its face to winter
and nothing I say or do
can change anything.
So I sleep late and waken
long after the sun has risen
in an empty house and walk
the dusty halls or sit
and listen to the wind
creak in ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a poem to send to a friend. She found out a few moments ago that her grandfather died and I'd like to send her something. I am thinking specifically of a poem called "Llanto" but I don't remember the author. It contained the lines "that which was earth returned to earth/that which was man..." and I don't remember the rest ( Read more... )

I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes ( Read more... )

We stand in the rain in a long line
waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work.
You know what work is--if you're
old enough to read this you know what
work is, although you may not do it.
Forget you. This is about waiting,
shifting from one foot to another.
Feeling the light rain falling like mist
into your hair, blurring your vision
until ( Read more... )