Damn! Thank you!!! whoever you are! I love you! Nâzım Hikmet Because of you Because of you, each day is a melon slice smelling sweetly of earth. Because of you, all fruits reach out to me as if I were the sun. Thanks to you, I live on the honey of hope. You are the … Continue reading Nâzım Hikmet – Because of you

Wendell Berry Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the … Continue reading Wendell Berry – Real Work

You look out of your window, and realize something is growing in the garden of your vision and when you take a closer look you notice they are small mushrooms of loneliness. Popping out in the garden even if you never planted them. Fungi are like that, they move through this world in mysterious ways, they … Continue reading Mary Oliver – In Blackwater Woods

Adrienne Rich Twenty One Love Poems No. 2 I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other, You've been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed: our friend the poet comes into my room where I've been writing for days, … Continue reading Adrienne Rich – Twenty One Love Poems No. 2

3.23.17 Lucille Clifton poem in praise of menstruation if there is a river more beautiful than this bright as the blood red edge of the moon          if there is a river more faithful than this returning each month to the same delta             if there is … Continue reading Lucille Clifton – poem in praise of menstruation

Poem: Danse Russe William Carlos Williams If when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: … Continue reading William Carlos Williams – Danse Russe

Adieu Derek - you did feast on this life, now onto the next one! I was doing this yesterday evening without knowing I will be saying goodbye to you today - I made dinner, poured wine, thanked my kidneys and liver, and smiled remembering it is still good to be me with me - Tonight … Continue reading Derek Walcott – Love After Love – Adieu Derek

Listen - you'll hear it -  Will you come with me? - I promise nothing nor know what awaits us, but we can hold hands, and we like good times.  'pity this busy monster, manunkind' pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with … Continue reading EEC – ‘pity this busy monster, manunkind’

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver • Boy oh boy.. I've got a lot to say about a short poem..ah to be a dumb man.. Woke up somewhat tender this morning, ———————- as if I … Continue reading Mary Oliver – Box Full Of Darkness

"Equality, and I will be free. " - Maya Angelou -  Happy International Women's Day. For All the amazing women here on this list! For all the amazing the women that I have known in my life, for all the women that I don't know. For my mother, sister, aunt, grandmas, for my friends, and … Continue reading Maya Angelou – Equality – International Women’s Day.