Tag Archives: Sam Hamill

Celebrating Death in Life – A Poem by Sam Hamill

April 29, 2019 – 6:03 pm

The Orchid Flower Just as I wonder whether it’s going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can’t explain why it moves my heart, why such pleasure comes from one small bud on a long spindly stem, one blood red gold flower opening at mid-summer, tiny, perfect in its hour. Even to a white- haired […]

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Saved by Poetry – Sam Hamill, Poet, Editor, Publisher (1943-April 14th, 2018)

April 15, 2018 – 8:35 pm

Blasphemy For Sam Hamill Let the blasphemy be spoken: poetry can save us, not the way a fisherman pulls the drowning swimmer into his boat, not the way Jesus, between screams, promised life everlasting to the thief crucified beside him on the hill, but salvation nevertheless. Somewhere a convict sobs into a book of poems […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – #39 in a Series – Five Disorienting Wisdom Poems!

March 4, 2018 – 7:40 am

Happiness I saw a bee settle on a rose petal. It sipped, and off it flew. All in all, happiness, too, is something little. Trilussa (aka Carlo Alberto Salustri 1871-1950), ed. Geoffrey Brock, trans. John Dowd from FSG Book of 20th Century Italian Poetry, FSG, 2012 Discovered to my shock I never posted this a few […]

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Does Poetry Matter? That Question Again!!!

July 22, 2014 – 7:42 am

Every poem has an unconscious life…Our poems know more than we do. Read them as clues. Marie Howe, Venice, July 2014 That’s what poets do: they go to the places that most terrify them and report back. Patrick Lane, Honeymoon Bay, Vancouver Island, July 2014 Does Poetry Matter? You bet it matters! I have just […]

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