Once again, the daily poem syncs up with today’s other posts. Church-Monuments ~ George Herbert While that my soul repairs to her devotion, Here I entomb my flesh, that it betimes May take acquaintance of this heap of dust; To which the blast of death’s incessant motion, Fed with the exhalation of our crimes, Drives all […]
Kindness ~ Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between […]
The Secret ~Denise Levertov Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. I who don’t know the secret wrote the line. They told me (through a third person) they had found it but not what it was not even what line it was. No doubt by now, more than a […]
Substantial Planes ~ A. R. Ammons It doesn’t matter to me if poems mean nothing: there’s no floor to the universe and yet one walks the floor.
In case you need a bit of energy boost to get you through May Day, because your Walpurgisnacht may have gone rather late, today’s poem is actually a song! Turn up the volume and dance! In case you’re curious about the lyrics, here’s a translation from the German: Into the evening sky rise […]
