HEY
Look at the stars,
look at how they shine for you
The Small Joys of Life:
How Poetry Counter Political Tragedy Try to Praise the Mutilated World By Adam Zagajewski September 17, 2001 Try to praise the mutilated world.Remember June’s long days,and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.The nettles that methodically overgrowthe abandoned homesteads of exiles.You must praise the mutilated world.You watched the stylish yachts and ships;one of them had a…
Poetic Pain
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch – 1950- My father in the night shuffling from room to room on an obscure mission through the hallway. Help me, spirits, to penetrate his dream and ease his restless passage. Lay back the darkness for a salesman who could charm everything but the shadows, an immigrant who stands on…
Spiritual Love
Literary response to John Donne’s ‘A valediction: forbidding mourning’ A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning BY JOHN DONNE As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go,Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now, and some say, No: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;’Twere profanation of…
Literary Response to Cyril Wong’s “Hotel”
HotelCyril Wong In the cupboard, bare hangers are skeletonsfor future selves; a complimentary bathrobewaits like a new and better, even purer, skin;fresh pillows are the unformed bodiesof lovers yet to be born; bedroom slippersbecome footwear for shuffling upan airy flight of stairs free of this life.Open the fridge, lean past the overpricedchocolate and the smugly…
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