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ratbits · 11 months
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"Saturday Night as an Adult" by Anne Carson
An internet kerfuffle earlier this week offered some intriguing insights into generational gaps and the current book scene. On June 5, at 9:52 a.m., New Yorker cultural writer Hannah Williams posted an off-handed tweet about Canadian-poet-in-exile Anne Carson, stating that she found herself thinking often of a short piece of prose poetry published a few years prior in the New…
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metamorphesque · 9 months
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— Mary Oliver, The Pond
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havingapoemwithyou · 1 month
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the sun by Mary Oliver
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itsthislake · 4 months
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“The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver.
HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY ACE!!
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geryone · 2 months
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I Could Die Today and Live Again, Summer Farah
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fandom-trash-goblin · 2 months
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And at last can grant a name To a buried and a burning flame As love and its decisive pain Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
— of sunlight, and your hand in mine.
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diverscaple · 1 day
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lettersbycandlelight · 9 months
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ratbits · 11 months
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"The Sea" by James Reeves
A poem doesn’t have to be complicated to be wonderful. Poetry can be simple. It can also be quiet profound. It’s often both, at the same time. It gives voice to the world around us, in all its incomprehensible wonder and vastness. It helps us to position ourselves within us, writing hymns and lamentations and sonnets and odes to the starry dynamos of night, the wind whispering through the…
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metamorphesque · 9 months
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musings on the sun
christina perneta, noor hindi, vincent van gogh, jeanette winterson, zinaida vysota docenko, anne sexton, olga kos, khalil gibran
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vodkatales · 2 years
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How can we be allowed to feel so much for people who don't feel anything for us?
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"Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur"
~ Tomas Tranströmer, from "The Cuckoo"
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schuylerpeck · 5 months
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thinking about seasonal writing cycles—how human the experience to be stunned by a realization you’ve made each year, feeling as though it’s the first.
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tulipsofthemorning · 10 months
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petaltexturedskies · 10 months
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The summer night glowed; in the field fireflies were glinting. And for those who understood such things, the stars were sending messages.
Louise Glück, from Midsummer in 'Poems 1962-2012’
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flowerytale · 2 years
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil, from "Baked Goods", Lucky Fish (published in 2011)
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