Daily Poem: Like the Coffee ~ Mahmoud Darwish
Like the Coffee ~ Mahmoud Darwish And you became like the coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.
Like the Coffee ~ Mahmoud Darwish And you became like the coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.
The Unequal Fetters ~ Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Cou’d we stop the time that’s flying Or recall it when ’tis past Put far off the day of Dying Or make Youth for ever last To Love wou’d then be worth our cost. But since we must loose those Graces Which at first your hearts […]
Buying ~ Jean Follain Translated from French by Heather McHugh She was buying an elixir in a city of bygone times yet we should think of her now when shoulders are as white and wrists as fine flesh as sweet Oh, vertiginous life!
Flight ~ Jorge Guillén Translated from the Spanish by Reginald Gibbons Through summer air The ascending gull Dominates the expanse, the sea, the world Under the blue, under clouds Like the whitest wool-tufts, And supreme, regal, It soars. All of space is a wave transfixed. White and black feathers Slow the ascent, Suddenly slipping on […]
Wait ~ Galway Kinnell Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now? Personal events will become interesting again. Hair will become interesting. Pain will become interesting. Buds that open out of season will become lovely again. Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, […]
