Tag archive for ‘poem of the day’
Riehlife Poem of the Day: “Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt,” by Jane Hirschfield
Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt
by Jane Hirschfield
from After
The dog, dead for years, keeps coming back in the dream.
We look at each other there with the old joy.
It was always her gift to bring me into the present—
Which sleeps, changes, awakens, dresses, leaves.
Happiness and unhappiness
differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one of pressed tin,
this [...]
Riehlife Poem of the Day: e. e. cummings’ “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in”
When I was a young married woman computing to graduate school at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville in the 1970s before I went into Peace Corps in 1972, my husband and my best friend of that time got together to buy me the complete works of e.e. cummings. I was never so thrilled, and spent almost [...]
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Sandra Kohler’s “Why a Woman Can’t Be a Pope”
Nina’s Night 22″ x 17″ by Eden Maxwell
The Country of Women (1995): CALYX Books “Sandra Kohler’s poems find art in the mundane, the sacred, and the profane. Examining woman’s experience as sexual being, as mother, and as artist, Kohler reveals what it means to live in a woman’s body.” -from the cover
Why a Woman [...]
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Nabokov’s Butterflies
Painting by Joseph Lamarque (see profile under Art Matters)
Vladimir Nabokov’s poem was suggested by my friend Leigh Davidson as our poem of the day.–JGR
Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings
No, life is no quivering quandary!
No, life is no quivering quandary!
Here under the moon things are bright and dewy.
We are the caterpillars of angels; and sweet
It is [...]
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Langston Hughes’ “A Negro Speaks of River” with links to audio and scholarly article
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
This is the first stanza of one of my favorite poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” by Langston Hughes (from The Collected Poems of Langston [...]
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