ABOUT MARRIAGE ~BY DENISE LEVERTOE
Don’t lock me in wedlock, I want
marriage, an
encounter —
February 2025
GOING HOME ~BY PHILIP BARTRAM
In the countenance of unlocked winds,
The moth-sustained night withers, and
THE RIDE ~BY PHILIP BARTRAM
THE RIDE Night has crushed the earth,And I am held in a carbon fiber handBy polyester belts secured at three points.The quarter moon, in all vagueness,Has come up from the sea and passedOver the sheer stone cliffs. I have climbed into this armor,Wheeled and powered for speed,To ride shielded beneath the entire weightOf night and…
SONNET 116 – LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS ~BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
COALMINER’S YODEL NO. 1 ~BY PHILIP BARTRAM
Grandfather spoke fondly of Ike
In a breath scuffed by the lung-deep
FROM THE EARLY YEARS ~BY PHILIP BARTRAM
In a leave-rustling breeze,
The child dismounted a broom-stick horse,
BROWN EYES ~BY STEPHEN BAUERMEISTER
Time flies,
When I look into your brown eyes,
Like chocolate sweets,
RAINBOWS ~BY POETICIA
Your gaze rushed at me like waterfalls
Dropping rainbows on my heart
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY ~BY BILLY COLLINS
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT ~BY DYLAN THOMAS
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day
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