Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winterby Robert Frost The west was getting out of gold,The breath of air had died of cold,When shoeing home across the white,I thought I saw a bird alight.In summer when I passed the placeI had to stop and lift my face;A bird with an angelic giftWas singing in it […]
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September Poems
Something of what we see daily here has been caught in a poem. Septemberby Helen Hunt Jackson The golden-rod is yellow; The corn is turning brown; The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. The gentian’s bluest fringes Are curling in the sun; In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun. […]
Garden Haiku
Do you write haiku?I don’t write the poems, but like to read them. Breaking that mold, here’s a meme for us:Write a haiku (or two) that depicts your garden. Give us your poetic impression of your view of your garden in Haiku, post it in the comments and I will list them in a post. […]
Summer Poem
Looking for Gold A flavor like wild honey beginswhen you cross the river. On a sandbarsunlight stretches out its limbs, or is ita sycamore, so brazen, so clean and so bold?You forget about gold. You stare—and a flavoris rising all the time from the trees.Back from the river, over by a thickforest, you feel the […]
April Poetry
Azure and Gold by Amy Lowell(1874-1925) April had covered the hillsWith flickering yellows and reds,The sparkle and coolness of snowWas blown from the mountain beds. Across a deep-sunken streamThe pink of blossoming trees,And from windless applebloomsThe humming of many bees. The air was of rose and goldArabesqued with the song of birdsWho, swinging unseen under […]
September Poetry
I am alone with nature,With the soft September day;The lifting hills above me,With goldenrod are gay.Across the fields of etherFlit butterflies at play;And cones of garnet sumacGlow down the country way. The autumn dandelionBeside the roadway burns;Above the lichened bouldersQuiver the plumed ferns.The cream-white silk of the milkweedFloats from its sea-green pod;From out the mossy […]
