“Fall” by Mary Oliver
Fall the black oaks fling their bronze fruit into all the pockets of the earth pock pock they knock against the thresholds the roof the sidewalk fill the eaves … Continue Reading
“The Moon and the Yew Tree” by Sylvia Plath
The Moon and the Yew Tree This is the light of the mind, cold and planetaryThe trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if… Continue Reading
“Oh Earth, wait for me” by Pablo Neruda
Oh Earth, wait for me Turn me oh sun towards my native destiny, rain from the ancient forest, return to me the fragrance and the swords that fall from the sky, the solitary peace of… Continue Reading
“Ophelia” by Arthur Rimbaud
Ophelia I On the calm black water where the stars are sleepingWhite Ophelia floats like a great lily ;Floats very slowly, lying in her long veils…- In the far-off woods you can hear them sound… Continue Reading
“I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party” by Chen Chen
I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party In the invitation, I tell them for the seventeenth time(the fourth in writing), that I am gay. In the invitation, I include a picture of my boyfriend&… Continue Reading
“What Makes a Good Citizen” by Charles M. Schulz
Back in 1970, all the students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne Elementary School in Beverly Hills, California, were asked to write a letter to someone they truly admired, asking "What makes a good citizen?"… Continue Reading
12 Haiku Poems by Jack Kerouac
12 Haiku Poems In the sunthe butterfly wingsLike a church window Empty baseball fielda robinhops along the bench The windmillsof Oklahoma lookin every direction Train on the horizon – my window rattles… Continue Reading
“Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Archaic Torso of Apollo We cannot know his legendary headwith eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torsois still suffused with brilliance from inside,like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams… Continue Reading
‘And this word, this paper written’ by Pablo Neruda
'And this word, this paper written' And this word, this paper writtenby the thousand hands of a single handdoes not rest in you, does not serve for dreams.It falls to the earth: there it continues.… Continue Reading
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the… Continue Reading