Category Archives: Poetry

For All

Posted on 24 September 2011 by

Ah to be alive on a mid-September morn fording a stream barefoot, pants rolled up, holding boots, pack on, sunshine, ice in the shallows, northern rockies. Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters stones turn underfoot, small and hard as … Continue reading →

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Four Quartets: Appropriate for all occasions

Posted on 21 April 2011 by

You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go … Continue reading →

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A small treasure rediscovered

Posted on 9 March 2011 by

Well, it’s a treasure for me, anyway–a poem I remembered writing but had no copy of anywhere. I wrote this in July 1996, a first experiment with prose poetry. Knowing that she had not murdered her son, knowing perhaps that … Continue reading →

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The Hill of the Bards

Posted on 1 October 2010 by

In his excellent book The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual, the late Alexei Kondratiev suggests that the Song of Amergin can be used as a calendar, without rearranging any of the lines or accepting any of Robert Graves’s … Continue reading →

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“Myth” by Muriel Rukeyser

Posted on 14 May 2010 by

Long afterward, Oedipus, old and blinded, walked the roads. He smelled a familiar smell. It was the Sphinx. Oedipus said, “I want to ask one question. Why didn’t I recognize my mother?” “You gave the wrong answer,” said the Sphinx. … Continue reading →

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Aaaaand it’s still Poetry Month!

Posted on 14 April 2010 by

Come to the orchard in spring There is light and wine And Sweethearts In the pomegranate flowers If you do not come These do not matter It you do come These do not matter –Rumi

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Back to the poetry mines…

Posted on 10 April 2010 by

I live my life in growing rings which move out over the things around me. Perhaps I’ll never complete the last, but that’s what I mean to try. I’m circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I’ve been circling … Continue reading →

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Tra la la, hymns are poetry, too

Posted on 7 April 2010 by

These are the lyrics of one of my favorite Easter hymns.  I figure at least the original Latin (or Greek?) counted as decent poetry.  Myself, I just can’t resist the word “unmoistened”. Come, ye faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant … Continue reading →

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Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Posted on 6 April 2010 by

I just helped to process a rush order on a new book here at work: Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson.  It’s a children’s book aimed at middle school readers; it’s also a fictional young black boy’s memoir written entirely in poetry. … Continue reading →

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Your poem for the day

Posted on 5 April 2010 by

Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an … Continue reading →

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