Category: Poetry

Than­ks to hopeev­ey for the point­er to this poem. The Jour­ney by Mary Oliv­er  One day you final­ly knew what you had to do, and began, though the voic­es around you kept shout­ing their bad advice – though the whole house began to trem­ble and…

My moth­er gives me her recipe by Marge Pier­cy Take some flour. Oh, I don’t know, like two-three cups, and you cut in the but­ter. Now some women they make it with short­en­ing, but I say but­ter, even though that means you had…

From The Writer’s Almanac for today. Nos­tal­gia by Bil­ly Collins, from Sail­ing Alone Around the Room Remem­ber the 1340s? We were doing a dance called the Cat­a­pult. You always wore brown, the col­or craze of the decade, and I was draped in…

From The Writer’s Almanac for today. I am enjoy­ing receiv­ing it in my email. Poem: “Say­ing Good­bye to Very Young Chil­dren,” by John Updike http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/updike.htm, from Amer­i­cana and Oth­er Poems (Knopf). Say­ing Good­bye to Very Young Chil­dren They will not be…

I promise I won’t do this all day. I want­ed to save these for myself, though. I’ve got Phe­nom­e­nal Woman on my own site but had­n’t seen this poem before.