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Sarah Kay spoken-word poetry: If I should have a daughter …
I love this poem by Sarah Kay and wanted to share it with you… Filed under: art, expressing self, happiness, insight, inspiration, life, love, motivation, people, personal, perspective, poetry, this...
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Introduction To Poetry
Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slideor press an ear against its hive.I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way...
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Bride of the New Dawn
photograph Ballet Project by ABorisov Studio Bride of the New Dawn by Laura Mullen She appears to be recognized as herself and not herself, new because endlessly recycled, not what she was but not...
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Tick Tick Tick by Alex Lemon
Tick Tick Tick by Alex Lemon The most troubling thing is everything. It’s all happening At the same time. Interpreting dreams while watching Let’s Make A Deal. Eating tofurkey & Cherry Garcia while...
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Counting Backwards
Counting Backwards by Linda Pastan How did I get so old, I wonder, contemplating my 67th birthday. Dyslexia smiles: I’m 76 in fact. There are places where at 60 they start counting backwards; in Japan...
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Humbleness
“Standing on the bare ground,–my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,–all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the...
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An Unsown Seed
Unsown Seed by Chaka Sichangi Stubborn,Like your eyes will you have the traits of your father?Visionary,Destined a legend will you be like my father?Maya’s phenomenal, a genius like your...
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“Mad Girl’s Love Song”
― Sylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my lids and all is born again.(I think I made you up inside my head.)The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,And arbitrary blackness...
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new dress by Anya Silver
Hello, lovely disguise. Come swing short and loose around my thighs. Cowl my neckline, let my throat rise out of your yellow folds like a virgin. Cup my shoulders; cling to my breasts so closely that...
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Infant Father by William Wenthe
Birth You entered screaming, anointedwith blood and vernix—our tempestuous goddess,weighed, cleaned, rubbed, recordedby your priestess-nurses.When I held you in my hands,I was the small one. Three a.m....
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“After a Very Long Difficult Day” By Brenda Hillman
You talk to your loved ones at night. It is a kind of modernism:color sees into you, thinks a warmpath, a tint of meaning broughtfrom how you feel. Then, you are double: the owl calls out, tyto alba,in...
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LONGING
LONGING I long to return where my heart’s song began The quaint city by the ocean I once knew so well How I long to play along her sugar white shore Swim in her ocean as deep and as blue as my...
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No excuse
Get your creative juices flowing… photo: Getty Images No excuse by Samantha Reynolds Don’t tell me you are not inspired. That is no excuse. Creativity doesn’t land; it is earned. So wrench your eyelids...
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I repeat you by Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 – 19 July 1965) was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Ingrid Jonker has reached iconic...
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One More Time
One More Time Marked by the Muse “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” — Maya Angelou Today, trust that you can create the change that is calling within you one...
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