It has been quite some time since I wrote a post about a poem. I’m […]
Category Archives: Poetry
Juan Ramon Jiménez, “Voice of white fire”
Today I dip again into the deep well of News of the Universe, a poetry anthology by […]
Robinson Jeffers, “Love the Wild Swan”
This poem by Robinson Jeffers has showed up on my doorstep as I scratch my […]
John Haines, “If the owl calls again”
If the owl calls again at dusk from the island in the river, and it’s […]
Robert Browning, “A Death in the Desert”
I did not expect to be taking on Robert Browning when I initiated my “Poetry […]
Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris
I have a weakness for big, complicated, fully embodied – some might say overblown – […]
Mountains and Rivers Without End: The Flowing
Over stone lip the creek leaps out as one divides in spray and streamers,This poem, […]
Louise Gluck, “Witchgrass”
At one of those little free libraries in our neighborhood my wife (as usual feeding […]
H.D., Sea Garden
As I poke around here and there in the poetic corpus for resonances of the […]
Yeats, “The Song of Wandering Angus”
I went down to the hazel wood Because a fire was in my head. I […]