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Sunday, November 27, 2011
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
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A noiseless, patient spider, I marked, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Marked how, to explore the vacant, vast surround...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Douglas
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Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the soldier sprawling in...
A Thankful Poem
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The Last Thursday The Chill Rushes through me. I move toward the door looking for warmth I take a Knife a Fork a Spoon...
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Curiosity by Alastair Reid
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may have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious to see what death was like, having no cause to go ...
Sunday, October 30, 2011
The Possibility by James Fenton
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The lizard on the wall, engrossed, The sudden silence from the wood Are telling me that I have lost The possibility of good. I know t...
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The Coming of Wisdom with Time by William Butler Yeats
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wit...
Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Halo That Would Not Light by Lucie Brock-Broido
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When, after many years, the raptor beak Let loose of you, He dropped your tiny body In the scarab...
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