I probably should have done this update sooner.
a line from a poem at http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17065
"Like poetry, they got so/much nothing done."
A sonnet. Also a pastoral, I guess, about a weather vane shaped like a rooster in a desered landscape.
http://www.versedaily.org/2016/vane.shtml
"Omens" This is strange but lovely.
https://www.poets.org/print/node/436071
Poem about a dead deer
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/dead-deer
Reminds me of a poem with the same theme from my book Five Poets,"Travelling through dark." It's quoted here: http://leavingcertrevision.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SampleAnsweronjcSTUDIEDpoetry.pdf
Beauty of the Trees (second poem)
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17093
A science fiction tale, perhaps, or maybe not
Visions
"let me begin by telling you/about the cold"
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17096
Autumn poem "Harvest"
http://www.versedaily.org/2016/harvest.shtml
Whatever is too stupid to say can be sung. —JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719)
epigraph to a poem on writers almanac Oct 26, 2016
5 short sweet poems
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17101
"The Map"
(transparency)
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/map
excerpt from a poem
the little white
daisy-like flowers and the tendrils
of the tiny striated blue ones,
which have, as it happens, not only
the one name Speedwell but many more
besides, Bird’s Eye, Cat’s Eye, Farewell
and Goodbye. You were to stitch a posy
of it onto the beloved’s coat
before a journey, the boat leaving
for what distant shore.
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=16982
Short excerpt from http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17112
"Heart Failure"
The energy of the cosmos /is never lost, only changes form, takes your breath away.
Lovely poem "Verge"
http://www.versedaily.org/2016/verge.shtml
A poem about loss, I think. "Huge Cloudy"http://www.versedaily.org/2016/hugecloudy.shtml
One line excerpt:"the big dipper pouring night down over you"
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/any-common-desolation
A villanelle about math (about an article about math)
http://www.versedaily.org/2016/philiplarkinskoan.shtml
"I know that someone said/in a perfect universe, we'd all be dead."
Thank you poem, posted on Thanksgiving day.
http://www.versedaily.org/2016/thankyou.shtml
"Late Tomato"
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17132
"The January Bee"
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17144
"Letter from Limbo"
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17147
"Modernity"
About time, old age, progress and change. And memories.
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17149
Quote from the author about his poem, "imagination is like magic; it can get you into trouble, but also get you out"
(Hint: click on the MORE button.)
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/evergreen
"Smoke Tree"
memories of deceased parents
http://shenandoahliterary.org/661/2016/11/02/smoke-tree/
"The Past" (villanelle)
http://www.versedaily.org/2016/thepast.shtml
"The Immigrant Story"
excerpt:"I entered the English language"
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20161218/
"Ale & Cake"
(Shakespeare quote inspired this. It made me laugh.)
http://shenandoahliterary.org/661/2016/11/04/ale-cakes/
"American Ready-Cut System Houses"
This poem wanders around but connects at the end. Also click on "More" button for the story behind the poem.https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/american-ready-cut-system-houses
"Lunar Eclipse"
Seen from Mt Rainier
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lunar-eclipse
"Augustine Chanting"
precious words
http://www.versedaily.org/2016/augustinechanting.shtml
"Music from Childhood"
It's a pantoum, a poem which thrives on repetition, according to a set pattern. The author comments that the repetition seems appropriate to his subject - of growing up in a home where two languages are spoken.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/music-childhood
"Harbingers"
(the small before the large)
http://www.versedaily.org/2016/harbingers.shtml
"Music"
why it affects us so
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20170103/
"Breath"
http://www.versedaily.org/2017/breath.shtml
"Sea Garden"
(inspired by learning that "dead man's fingers" is a type of coral - click on More button.)
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/sea-garden
"What she taught me"
a beautiful tribute to the poet's mom
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20170130/
For Valentine's Day, a love poem
"Decades Ago"
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17212
"I decided to take these tired metaphors and deconstruct their camouflage, until all that remains is the true ‘heart’ of the matter: one human being, stripped of blather and artifice, speaking to the beloved."
—Rita Dove
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/heart-heart
Click on More for the full author's quote.
A poem for Christmas
http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17219
