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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

bookmarks:
listography GIVE A GIFT OF MEMORIES
oldfilmsflicker movies (new-to-me 2024)
movies (directed by women 2024)
s. to do (thirty-five before thirty-five)
podcasts (two thousand and twenty-four)

morocco

Val

  • The more loving one - Auden
  • Death is before me today - unknown (trans. W.s. Merwin)
  • Insomnia - abu amir ibn al-hammaran (trans. cola franzen)
  • Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins - R.S. Gwynn

Beaver

  • poetry book
  • Wendell berry
  • romanticism/Transcendentalism

Dad

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  • "What Do Women Want?" - Kim Addonizio
  • to Dorothy - Marvin Bell
  • when you are old - w.b. yeats
  • 79 - Joachim du Bellay
  • Theme for English B - Langston Hughes
  • How I Am - Jason Shinder
  • I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone - Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Mr. Grumpledump's Song - Shel Silverstein
  • Days of Me - Stuart Dischell
  • Insomnia - Alicia Suskin Ostriker
  • Little Night Prayer - Péter Kántor (trans. Michael Blumenthal)
  • samuri song - robert pinksy *
  • SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES - Siegfried Sassoon
  • http://www.stidger.com/poetry.jsp?poem=wash
  • Sara Teasdale
    • After Love
    • The Look
    • The Falling Star
    • Faults
    • What do I Care
  • Edgar Allan Poe
    • Annabel Lee
    • Alone
    • A Dream within a Dream
  • Naomi Shihab Nye
    • Streets
    • Negotiations with a Volcano
    • Famous
    • Fuel
  • Emily Dickinson
    • Because I could not stop for Death
    • The Soul unto itself
    • Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
    • Heart, We Will Forget Him!
  • C.P. Cavafy
    • He swears
    • I've brought to Art
    • Monotony
    • Walls
    • Since nine o'clock
    • In Despair
    • As Much As You Can
    • An Old Man
  • Sylvia Plath
    • Daddy
    • Lady lazarus
    • Mirror
    • Burning the letters
    • Mad Girl’s Love Song
  • Pablo Neruda
    • If You Forget Me
  • T.S. Eliot
    • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  • W.H. Auden
    • Refugee Blues
    • The More Loving One
  • Mark Haddon’s Gemini and Billy Collins and Yusuf Komunyakaa.
  • If - Rudyard Kipling
  • Untitled Poem for Sarah - Matt Mason
  • Ephemera - W.B. Yeats
  • The Panther - Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Eighth Duino Elegy - Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Old Fools - Philip Larkin
  • Variation on the Word Sleep - Margaret Atwood
  • This is Not an Elegy - Catherine Pierce
  • Faint Music - Robert Hass
  • The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart - Jack Gilbert
  • Iota Subscript - Robert Frost
  • Saying Your Names - Richard Siken (well, any of his poems, but this is my favourite at the moment)
  • When You are Old, W. B. Yeats

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  • Beveridge, Judith: On an Evening in Late Summer
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Kubla Khan
  • Davis, Olena Kalytiak: The Panic of Birds
  • Duffy, Carol Ann: Unloving
  • Elbe, Susan: How to Fall in Love
  • Gilbert, Jack: The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
  • Goldbarth, Albert: The Sciences Sing a Lullaby
  • Graham, Jorie: I Was Taught Three
  • Graham, Jorie: The Age of Reason
  • Harwood, Gwen: Suburban Sonnet
  • Harwood, Gwen: In the Park
  • Hetherington, Paul: Hand Print
  • King, Robert: A Language
  • Kinsella, John & Hewett, Dorothy: The Wild Things
  • Komunyakaa, Yusef: Instructions for Building Straw Huts
  • Laux, Dorianne: Savages
  • Mali, Taylor: What Teachers Make
  • Ondaatje, Michael: The Nine Sentiments
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria: Der Panther
  • Sandburg, Carl: Languages
  • Slot, Andrea Witzke: The Cartography of Flesh
  • Slot, Andrea Witzke: Terra Incognita
  • Soyinka, Wole: Dedication
  • Spahr, Juliana: some of we and the land that was never ours
  • Stasko, Nicolette: The Murmuring of Many Tongues
  • Stevens, Wallace: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
  • Szymborska, Wislawa: Under a Certain Little Star
  • Turcotte, Gerry: Triptych
  • Sonnet 35 [No more be grieved at which thou hast done] by Shakespeare
  • Tango 'Til They're Sore by Tom Waits
  • the song of mehitabel by Don Marquis
  • Bloom by Raine Maida
  • Sleeping In by Raine Maida
  • Our Lady Peace by Mark van Doren
  • Animals by Walt Whitman
  • Annabel Lee by Poe
  • Bright Star by John Keats
  • I celebrate myself, and sing myself by Walt Whitman (from Song of Myself)
  • Sonnet 10 [Death be not proud] by John Donne
  • The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
  • A Satire Against Mankind by John Wilmot
  • We Are the Living Graves of Murdered Beasts by George Bernard Shaw
  • A Dream Within a Dream by Poe
  • O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
  • Sonnet 130 [My misstress' eyes are nothing like the sun] by Shakespeare
  • The Raven by Poe
  • Blud Bath Bloose by Carole Pudar
  • Bird on a Wire by Leonard Cohen
  • The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service
  • The Joker's When the world is full of care song from "The Killing Joke" by Alan Moore
  • So, We'll Go No More A Roving by Lord Byron
  • Old Bones by Misha Collins
  • Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Ghost by Neil Fallon
  • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods by Lord Byron
  • Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
  • mehitabel s extensive past by Don Marquis
  • Vincent by Tim Burton
  • La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
may 11 2011 ∞
mar 21 2013 +