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'Did You Bring Me Anything', Gary Margolis
I know it's your birthday and I am an hour
late. I didn't think there would be another
girl for me to talk with, as I was putting on my
coat, turning off the light. Soft touch or not,
you know how hard it is for me to say no
when someone asks to speak with me and it is
their eyes that say first what they have
to say. I've read all the numbers that make ( ... )Leave a comment ( 6 )
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To A Terrorist + request
A couple of weeks ago, somebody posted The Rain by Zbigniew Herbert in greatpoets which I loved (it's such a bittersweet, saddening poem) and, when I was in high school, I really enjoyed studying poems about WW1 and/or WW2. So, I'd like request some poems regarding or alluding to modern warfare or modern concepts of war. Any recommendations would ( ... )Leave a comment ( 6 )
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What the Doctor Said (Raymond Carver)
What the Doctor Said
by Raymond Carver
He said it doesn't look good
he said it looks bad in fact real bad
he said I counted thirty-two of them on one lung before
I quit counting them
I said I'm glad I wouldn't want to know
about any more being there than that
he said are you a religious man do you kneel down
in forest groves and let yourself ask ( ... )Leave a comment ( 9 )
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Please Understand (A Bachelor's Valentine) // Stephen Dunn
When, next day, I found one of your earrings ( ... )Leave a comment ( 7 )
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Welcome
by Stephen Dunn
if you believe nothing is always what's left
after a while, as I did,
If you believe you have this collection
of ungiven gifts, as I do (right here
behind the silence and the averted eyes)
If you believe an afternoon can collapse
into strange privacies-
how in your backyard, for example,
the shyness of flowers can be ( ... )Leave a comment ( 8 )
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Essay on the Personal
by Stephen Dunn
Because finally the personal
is all that matters,
we spend years describing stones,
chairs, abandoned farmhouses-
until we're ready. Always
it's a matter of precision,
what it feels like
to kiss someone or to walk
out the door. How good it was
to practice on stones
which were things we could love
without ( ... )Leave a comment ( 9 )
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done dunn?
I think this might have been posted before. Still, it doesn't suffer from another read ( ... )Leave a comment ( 1 )
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