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Spring

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  • Poem
    By Petr Hruška
       They had already sat down on the bed. Then the man
    remembered the back door was still open. He groped…
  • Poem
    By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    Welcome children of the Spring,
       In your garbs of green and gold,
    Lifting up your sun-crowned heads
       On…
  • Poem
    By John Tickhill
    In springtime, chief of all seasons,
            in May when new joys rise and flourish,
                    the sun is lord and messenger…
  • Poem
    By William Shakespeare
    When daisies pied and violets blue
       And lady-smocks all silver-white
    And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
       Do…
  • Poem
    By Arthur Symons
    Side by side through the streets at midnight,
    Roaming together,
    Through the tumultuous night of London…
  • Poem
    By Aazhidegiizhig
    Waababaa                        As my eyes
    inaabiyan                         search
    mashkode                        the prairie
    noongom igod ji-niibin   I feel the summer in…
  • Poem
    By Miguel Algarín
    Not tonight but tomorrow
    when the light turns the peach
    tree green and the Earth sprouts
    its young leaves…
  • Poem
    By Chris Glomski
    of waves dropped into froth     Jellyfish a jar
    of innards half-buried in sand     Dead nature     What are
    these…
  • Poem

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    Revenant

    By Meena Alexander
    This disease has come back
    With frills and furbelows.

    You must give your whole life to poetry
    Only …
  • Poem

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    Diagnosis

    By Meena Alexander
    So how will it end?
    You want it straight?


    He looked me in the eye:
    You will lose weight,

    Become more…
  • Poem
    By Robert Frost
    Nature’s first green is gold,
    Her hardest hue to hold.
    Her early leaf’s a flower;
    But only so an hour…
  • Poem
    By E. E. Cummings
    O sweet spontaneous
    earth how often have
    the
    doting
     
                 fingers of
    prurient philosophers pinched
    and
    poked…
  • Poem
    By Wallace Stevens
                                       i
             The World without Imagination

    Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
    The sovereign ghost. As…
  • Poem
    By Hieu Minh Nguyen
    Even though it’s May & the ice cream truck
    parked outside my apartment is somehow certain,
    I have a …
  • Poem
    By Ursula K. Le Guin
         AUTUMN

    gold of amber
    red of ember
    brown of umber
    all September
     
         MCCOY CREEK
     
    Over the bright shallows…
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