Unbeknownst to me I think I’m giving myself a demi– dilemma, causing myself to get involved in a mini-musing. A Choice to make But how annoying the choosing! Juneteenth And father’s day...
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them.
#Welsh #XXCentury
This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry ca… Then in the magic of puberty, a classmat…
#Americans #Feminist #Women
You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have none,
#Scots #XIXCentury
Candy Is Dandy But liquor Is quicker.
#Americans #XXCentury
I have not ever seen my father’s grave. Not that his judgment eyes have been forgotten nor his great hands’ print on our evening doorknobs
#Americans #Blacks #Gays #Lesbians #Women #XXCentury
Stella oft sees the very face of woe Painted in my beclouded stormy face: But cannot skill to pity my disgrace, Not though thereof the cause herself she… Yet hearing late a fable, which did show
#Elizabethan #English #Renaissance #XVICentury
I was only a young man In those days. On that evening The cold was so God damned Bitter there was nothing. Nothing. I was in trouble
#Americans
It will not always be like this, The air windless, a few last Leaves adding their decoration To the trees’ shoulders, braiding the cu… Of the boughs with gold; a bird preening
I’m very pleased to be a body. Can ther… As you hold mine I feel firmly assured… and I think all life is a body. I’m hap… especially with the sun shining on it. I… I have hurt the body. That’s when I kno…
Beautiful natural blossoms, Pure delicate body, You stand without trembling. Little mist of fallen starlight, Perfect, beyond my reach,
It’s midnight, the house silent, in the distance a musical instrument being played softly. I am alone. It’s as if the world has come to an end on a low musical note
Sea—ward, white gleaming thro’ the busy… With arching Wings, the sea—mew o’er my… Posts on, as bent on speed, now passagin… Edges the stiffer Breeze, now, yielding… Now floats upon the air, and sends from…
#English #Romanticism #XIXCentury #XVIIICentury #Imagery
After that hot gospeller has levelled al… I wrote the tale by tallow of a city’s d… Under a candle’s eye, that smoked in tea… Wanted to tell, in more than wax, of fai… All day I walked abroad among the rubbl…
In a dream I’m no longer in love. I bre… and I vow never again to seal myself in,… also and that too is a kind of sealed co… care of my body and its home accommodati… appearance that I admire in the mirror,…
I am looking for a past I can rely on in order to look to death with equanimity. What was given me:
I dream I am lying in the mud on my bac… Which do I prefer, since I have the pow… air? It is summer. I decide quickly tha… of the sky I could not get by flying in…
It is heart-rending to know a kiss cannot cure the world of its illnesses, nor can your happiness, nor your tragedy of being a discrete person, for the bodi… fall like rain into the ground
The useless dawn finds me in a deserted… Nights are proud waves; darkblue topheav… Nights have a habit of mysterious gifts… The surge, that night, left me the custo… and odd ends: some hated friends to chat…
#Argentinos #PremioCervantes #SigloXX #1964 #ElOtroElMismo
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
#English #XVICentury #XVIICentury
Sea-ward, white gleaming thro’ the busy… With arching Wings, the sea-mew o’er my… Posts on, as bent on speed, now passagin… Edges the stiffer Breeze, now, yielding… Now floats upon the air, and sends from…
#English #Romanticism #XIXCentury #XVIIICentury
Finally, to forgo love is to kiss a leaf… is to let rain fall nakedly upon your he… is to respect fire, is to study man’s eyes and his gestures as he talks,
To the River Otter Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of th… How many various-fated years have past, What happy and what mournful hours, sinc… I skimm’d the smooth thin stone along th…
It is when your spirit goes wandering up… That you, alone and unguarded, commit a… And for that wrong committed must you kn… Like the ocean is your god—self; It remains for ever undefiled.
#XXCentury
When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of you with nothing on
#English #XIXCentury #XXCentury
I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had
I have something to tell you. I’m listening. I’m dying. I’m sorry to hear. I’m growing old.
An escape from the pain Someplace soft to fall When the world knocks me down And the ground is hard. Decorated by the hearts
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face: And oft with gentle hand I give thee br… And clap thy ragged coat, and pat thy he… But what thy dulled spirits hath dismay’…
Interesting that I have to live with my… It stands, prepared to emerge, and I ca… with me—this other thing I will become a… and yet it keeps me erect and limber in… my rival.
I stopped to pick up the bagel rolling away in the wind, annoyed with myself for having dropped it as if it were a portent.
magic carpet as long as the stars do not empty the sk… the distance in your gaze can’t look pas… the dream hope in the bright sky you see are ours forever between you and me
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends… No was the night. Yes is this present s… If the rejected things, the things denie… Slid over the western cataract, yet one,
#Americans #Modernism #PulitzerPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith: what we need
While talking to my mother she wonders, how will it be in her final hours? Who will take care of her
There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld
Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly glari… From wide, uneven orbits; one brow droop… Somewhat over the eye Because of a missile fragment still inhe… Skin-deep, as a foolish record of old-wo…
#English #XXCentury
Withhold your breath! Heavy in noon, and sleepy as slow death, Garden of sweets and sours, The cluster of my body hangs Odorous with flowers:
#Americans #Women
If I were a voice, a persuasive voice, That could travel the wide world through… I would fly on the beams of the morning… And speak to men with a gentle might, And tell them to be true.
Music so loud that my ears are ringin’ Jammin’ in my car n’ I’ll be singin’ Don’t give a damn what others are thinki… Middle finger up every time I greet 'em Yelling out, you can’t fuck with me
Bring me to the blasted oak That I, midnight upon the stroke, (All find safety in the tomb.) May call down curses on his head Because of my dear Jack that’s dead.
#Irish #NobelPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury
When I die choose a star and name it after me that you may know I have not abandoned or forgotten you.
Ah! why, because the dazzling sun Restored our Earth to joy, Have you departed, every one, And left a desert sky? All through the night, your glorious eye…
#English #Victorians #Women #XIXCentury
Desire, though thou my old companion art… And oft so clings to my pure love, that… One from the other scarcely can descry, While each doth blow the fire of my hear… Now from thy felloswhip I needs must pa…
And the traveller hopes: “Let me be far… Physician”; and the ports have names for… The citiless, the corroding, the sorrow; And North means to all: “Reject”. And the great plains are for ever where…
#English #Gays #XXCentury
The pig, if I am not mistaken; Supplies us sausage, ham, and bacon. Let others say his heart is big— I call it stupid of the pig.
Lord Strawberry, a nobleman, collected birds. He had the finest aviary in Europe, so large that eagles did not find it uncomfortable, so well laid out that both humming birds and snow-b...
#English #Women #XXCentury
I did not sleep last night. The falling snow was beautiful and white… I dressed, sneaked down the stairs And opened wide the door. I had not seen such snow before.
#English
to John Logan I wonder how many old men last winter Hungry and frightened by namelessness pr… The Mississippi shore Lashed blind by the wind, dreaming
i’ll be there time keeps on slipping just flies away on and on everywhere I go brings me back to where I am
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkne… and the darkness thicketed with shapes o… and the hunters pursuing and the hounds… and the night cold and the night long an… to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns becko…
God be with thee, gladsome Ocean! How gladly greet I thee once more! Ships and waves, and ceaseless motion, And men rejoicing on thy shore. Dissuading spake the mild physician,
I often wish I were a King, And then I could do anything. If only I were King of Spain, I’d take my hat off in the rain. If only I were King of France,
#English #WarWriters #XIXCentury #XXCentury
if there are any heavens my mother will(… one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley… it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose
#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
“Why can’t you see I’m a cat,” said the… “And that’s all I ever will be? Why are you shocked when I roam out at… Why are you sad when I meow and I fight… Why are you sick when I eat up a rat?
#Americans #Children #Jews #XXCentury
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame! Thou ne’er wilt leave my riper age To low intrigue, or factious rage; For oh! dear child of thoughtful Truth,
Wherever he looks, standing still in the… are people born of coupling, walking in… and ties, in long dresses and coiffed ha… speaking elegantly, of themselves and of… forgetting for the moment their origin,
I stand and listen, head bowed, to my inner complaint. Persons passing by think I am searching for a lost coin. You’re fired, I yell inside
Once upon a time, You and all your kind lived underneath b… Had ridges for ribs that dropped off int… As if an excavation crew were hired to d… And while the world above you invented t…
Our redemption is at hand. Heart exemption from the plan. Look at the tragedy. The Book is the only strategy. I’m what heaven see. They play hide and seek. Y’all thought it was a joke. ...
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