Let's Read Poetry - 1 poem at a time

caseyquinn · May 27, 2009

As much as I read poetry there is still a ton of it out there that I will never have the time to get to or know about. I wanted to try this out and see how it goes. Each day someone post a link to a poem by a poet that moved them.

Please do not post the poem in this thread only a link -

If you see a poem has already been posted for the day, just wait until the next day. One poem a day of a great poem that made you love poetry.

Here is one that I just read today by Raymond Carver in which I absolutely love the poem:
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/raymond_carver/poems/4591

ddgryphon · May 27, 2009

Interesting Casey. I just posted this in another thread. The poem that made me go from liking poetry okay, to truly believing in the power of poetry:

The Truth the Dead Know
by Anne Sexton

For my Mother, born March 1902, died March 1959
and my Father, born February 1900, died June 1959

Gone, I say and walk from church,
refusing the stiff procession to the grave,
letting the dead ride alone in the hearse.
It is June. I am tired of being brave.

We drive to the Cape. I cultivate
myself where the sun gutters from the sky,
where the sea swings in like an iron gate
and we touch. In another country people die.

My darling, the wind falls in like stones
from the whitehearted water and when we touch
we enter touch entirely. No one's alone.
Men kill for this, or for as much.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in the stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

caseyquinn · May 28, 2009

William Blake's A Poison Tree on today's 5/28 reading list:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15524

caseyquinn · May 29, 2009

Tess Gallagher - Little Match Box - 5/29 Reading List:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19133

Duke · May 31, 2009

The Ballad of William Sycamore

One of my all-time favorites is by Stephen Vincent Benet:

http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/30298-Stephen-Vincent-Benet-The-Ballad-Of-William-Sycamore--1790-1871-

Duke
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caseyquinn · Jun 1, 2009

Charles Bukowski - Bluebird

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/charles_bukowski/poems/12983

caseyquinn · Jun 2, 2009

William Carlos Williams on tap for today:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537

ajc · Jun 3, 2009

Thanks for starting this, Casey. Just to let you know that I'm reading them. So far you have posted 4 of my favorite poets. I love that one by WCW.

ddgryphon · Jun 3, 2009

At the risk of being accused of flogging, I must bring up this thread.

caseyquinn said:
William Carlos Williams on tap for today:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15537

caseyquinn · Jun 4, 2009

ha! i hadnt read that thread before - some funny poems in there ddgrphon!

here is a little walt whitman for the day's pleasure:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19418

ajc · Jun 4, 2009

Here's one I love:

http://www.webdelsol.com/Five_Points/issues/v7n1/collins.htm

for tomorrow...

Duke · Jun 5, 2009

The Purist

Ogden Nash showed up on TV regularly and was posthumously honored on a US postage stamp. One of his popular works:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-purist/

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Lyv · Jun 6, 2009

What a wonderful thread. Thank you to everyone who has posted.

I have a printout of this poem over my desk:

Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye

ajc · Jun 6, 2009

Oh, I like "Making a Fist". Thank you for sharing it; I had not read it.

caseyquinn · Jun 9, 2009

Some Dylan Thomas for today:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15381

Dichroic · Jun 10, 2009

A collection of Mary Oliver poems - not too many to read at once. (I especially like The Journey.)

caseyquinn · Jun 11, 2009

another reason why Bukowski is great:

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/charles_bukowski/poems/12976

who else could pull this poem off?

caseyquinn · Jun 15, 2009

Carl Sandburg for today:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20752

caseyquinn · Jun 18, 2009

Here is a great poem by H.D. named Song

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15967

Enjoy!

caseyquinn · Jun 22, 2009

big fan of this walt whitman poem "when i heard the learned astronomer"

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16083

just so simple yet ... perfect -

caseyquinn · Jun 23, 2009

Hart Crane is up for reading today with "At Melville's Tomb"

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15442

caseyquinn · Jun 24, 2009

Bukowski as "the suicide kid"

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16975

caseyquinn · Jul 23, 2009

what a great poem this is by Walt W:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15816

A. Hamilton · Jul 23, 2009

I enjoyed the first half of the poem by Walt Whitman very much, then it started to drag on and change, and I lost interest. on the sidebar on the webpage I read that he revised his Leaves of Grass over and over...now I'm assuming they mean the entire collection, but I can't help but wonder if this poem was also revised and changed.

caseyquinn · Jul 27, 2009

hey there, yea he republished that collection so many times, i would love to see the real progression of the poems, the edits he made as he matured as a poet. would be a learning experience i think.

here is a good one for today, a great one by Carl Sandburg:
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/carl_sandburg/poems/845

Let's Read Poetry - 1 poem at a time

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