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Nina Alvarez- Top 10 Poems of 2009Just like last year–the 10 most popular poems of the year. Happy Holidays and Happy New YEAR! 1. Ithaca 2. I Walked a Mile with Pleasure 3. Love Me Like You Never Loved Me Before 4. After a While 5. The Lost Son 6. Dirty Poem 7. The Unicorn 8. Deathless Aphrodite… 9. Wish for a Young Wife 10. Sonnet Posted in words [...]
- Poem of the Day: What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts to-night, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply; And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain, For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at [...]
- Poem of the Day: Before You Know What Kindness Really IsBefore You Know What Kindness Really Is Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride [...]
- Poem of the Day: ArtificerArtificer Burning, he walks in the stream of flickering letters, clarinets, machines throbbing quicker than the heart, lopped-off heads, silk canvases, and he stops under the sky and raises toward it his joined clenched fists. Believers fall on their bellies, they suppose it is a monstrance that shines, but those are knuckles, sharp knuckles [...]
- Top 10 Poems of 2009
