April 14, 2010
Reunion by Ethan Coen
Say, you look great!
Well, you look great
We both look great!
How long’s it been?
How long’s it been?–
A long, long time.
A long, long time.
Well, you look great! Continue reading “National Poetry Month: April 14th”
April 13, 2010
Blue Rainbow by M.L. Wylie
Blue, my love is blue
Dazzled by glass
Like frozen fire
For blue flame burns hottest and most pure
And so my love is azure
Blue, my love is blue
A thousand feet of sky
And sunlight in my eye
You lift me in the air
And so my love is bleu clair Continue reading “National Poetry Month: April 13th”
April 12, 2010
The Different Stars by W.S. Merwin
I could never have come to the present without you
remember that
from whatever stage we may again
watch it appear
with its lines clear
pain
having gone from there
so that we may well wonder
looking back on us here what tormented us
what great difficulty invisible
in a time that by then looks simple
and is irrevocable Continue reading “National Poetry Month: April 12th”
April 11, 2010
Forgetfulness by Billy Collins
The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never
even heard of,
as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a little fishing village where there are no phones. Continue reading “National Poetry Month: April 11th”
April 10, 2010
The Lama by Ogden Nash
The one-L lama,
He’s a priest.
The two-L llama,
He’s a beast.
And I would bet
A silk pajama
There isn’t any
Three-L lllama.
This poem was selected by Barb L. (Reader’s Services)
