a new poem – The Colour of Memory | Gnawledgewurker and his knowledge work blog
The Colour of Memory The giggles began at the end of the first bottle of red. The muse was hovering over your right shoulder smiling at me for the moment a little later when my pen would strike the...
View ArticleFriday poem: Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks | Learn to Dive Today Blog...
Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks – Martin Espada for my son Klemnte In 1898, with the infantry from Illinois, the boy who would become the poet Sandburg rowed his captain’s Saint Bernard ashore at...
View ArticlePoem Appreciation #1 – Fisches Nachtgesang (Christian Morgenstern)
Ah, John B. just said everything I had intended to say about this poem, and he said it so gracefully and beautifully. When I read the poem ("read?") and the essay earlier, I was reminded of what high...
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Blue Duck is a blink, is a turn away, is a poem | dk
Blue Duck Your sleeve waves goodbye while your hand curls a finger. Your lips Bronx-cheer me, so I duck. Ah-ha, you miss! Although we both miss fakes when our eyes are closed. If I chase the secret...
View ArticlePoem for Kids “Romeo+Juliet (abridged)” by Renee M
Then she sent me an ingenious graphic that appears below the poem and right above my interview with Julie. (And if you missed my interview with Shakespeare, you can find it right here.) But first I...
View ArticleValentine’s Day Love Poem: Detroit Writers Give Advice On How To Write A...
There are many ways to show affection on Valentine’s Day. Sure, you could make your darling smile by bringing flowers. You could even shower you sweetie with gifts of perfume or chocolate. But nothing,...
View ArticleA Valediction: of Weeping by John Donne : Poem Guide : Learning Lab : The...
John Donne probably wrote “A Valediction: of Weeping” after he met his future wife, Ann More, and before he took holy orders and turned most of his authorial energies to sermons and spiritual...
View ArticleOn Reading Crowds and Power by Geoffrey Hill : Poem Guide : Learning Lab :...
Geoffrey Hill’s 2007 poem “” isn’t an easy, one-dimensional poem. It doesn’t ask us to pay attention to its aural patterning or unpack a central metaphor—though those elements contribute to its art. It...
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Poetry Stuff | A Poem a Day – Fear No More – Shakespeare @ JasonCarnrike.com
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun; Nor the furious winter’s rages, Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney sweepers come to dust....
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Classic Poem Series: “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, plus interview with...
Julian, who are you, where are you, and how long have you been a doodling fool? I am an illustrator, comic book artist, graduate student, and language instructor living in Montreal, Canada. I have...
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Shakespeare’s great prodigy/era peer John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost is...
Milton’s first criticism of idolatry focuses on the practice of constructing temples and other buildings to serve as places of worship. In Book XI of Paradise Lost, Adam tries to atone for his sins by...
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Hamlet the God: Bloom’s Poem Unlimited | emmasrandomthoughts
I read Harold Bloom’s Hamlet: Poem Unlimited this weekend. I was a little disappointed. The problem with Harold Bloom’s book on Hamlet is that he is simply too enthralled with Hamlet’s character....
View ArticleLetters from a Hill Farm: Today’s poem by Henry David Thoreau
My books I’d fain cast off, I cannot read, ’Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at largeDown in the meadow, where is richer feed, And will not mind to hit their proper targe.Plutarch was good, and so...
View ArticleFavorite Insightful Poem “All World’s A Stage” by William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,...
View ArticleNot marble, nor the gilded monuments poem (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare...
The literature and poetry of William Shakespeare still live on and are greatly appreciated even after nearly 400 year years. On this thought, let us discuss the lines of one of his sonnets “Not...
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margaret-cooter: Poetry Thursday – a poem by Liu Jixu
It’s from a book called 300 Tang Poems, published in 1920 and available on the University of Virginia website. The Tang period (618-907) is considered the golden age of Chinese literature, and the...
View ArticleHere’s a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
“How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do…” The Swing, a classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, is one of many poems in...
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How To Write A Love Poem: Give Your Partner Chills
A great place to start when you want to begin writing love poetry is with a creative writing course. While courses like these don’t cover love poetry specifically, they can help you to better...
View ArticleThe Miss Rumphius Effect: Science Poetry Pairings – Assorted Science in Poem...
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything, written by Bill Bryson and illustrated by Yuliya Somina and Martin Sanders, is an abridged and adapted version for kids of his bestseller, A Short History...
View ArticleEaster, 1916 by William Butler Yeats : Poem Guide : Learning Lab : The Poetry...
One of the most powerful political poems of the 20th century was written by a man who was ambivalent about politics. William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) began his career under the spell of the late...
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