Poetry Question

In hon­or of Nation­al Poet­ry Month, the Acad­e­my of Amer­i­can Poets has been send­ing out a poem a day via email to sub­scribers. I’m enjoy­ing them, but one of them just… Have you ever found the form of a poem to…

Poetry: The Armful

The Arm­ful For every par­cel I stoop down to seize I lose some oth­er off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slip­ping, bot­tles, buns, Extremes too hard to com­pre­hend at once. Yet noth­ing I should care to leave behind. With all…

Poetry: Robert Frost

Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished at Ene­my of Entropy. Please leave any com­ments there. The Arm­ful For every par­cel I stoop down to seize I lose some oth­er off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slip­ping, bot­tles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend…

Poetry: Kryptonite

Kryp­tonite –Ron Koertge Lois liked to see the bul­lets bounce off Super­man’s chest, and of course she was proud when he leaned into a loco­mo­tive and saved the crip­pled orphan who had fall­en on the tracks. Yet on those long…

Poetry: We Bring Democracy To The Fish

We Bring Democ­ra­cy To The Fish –Don­ald Hall From White Apples and the Taste of Stone It is unac­cept­able that fish prey on each oth­er. For their com­fort and safe­ty, we will lib­er­ate them into fish­farms with secure, durable bound­aries that exclude preda­tors. Our care…

Poetry: Kolmården Zoo

Kolmår­den Zoo by Bill Coyle Over our heads, trail­ing a wake of air and an enor­mous shad­ow as it passed, the fal­con glid­ed to its trainer’s fist and set­tled like a loaded weapon there. Then, while she fed the bird bit after bit of…what?…

Poetry: Change

That last was so dark that I had to post some­thing a bit lighter. Change –Louis Jenk­ins From The Win­ter Road All those things that have gone from your life, moon boots, TV trays, and the Sovi­et Union, that seem to…

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