Tag Archives: Czeslaw Milosz

The “Longness” of Poetry, Guest Poetry Blog #11, Introducing the latest Contributor, Peggy Rosenthal, Part One of Two

April 2, 2023 – 11:24 am

  from Ars Poetica? The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys […]

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To Celebrate World Poetry Day – Praise and Wonder In Spite of Everything – Poems by Kaminsky and Milosz And a Kaminsky Interview Excerpt from March 15th, 2022

March 21, 2022 – 10:27 pm

from The Separate Notesbooks: A Mirrored Gallery Pure beauty, benediction: you are all I gathered  From a life that was bitter and confused,  In which I learned about evil, my […]

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Czeslaw Milosz – A Tribute – Part Two – A Poem to Honour the Men and Women in Ukraine in Wartime, February 2022

February 26, 2022 – 7:49 pm

Here is the great paradox of poetry and of the imaginative arts in general. Faced with the brutality of the historical onslaught, they are practically useless. Yet they verify our […]

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A Tail of Two Poems – A Reflection on the Search for Eternal Truths in the Poetry of the Nobel Prize Laureate, Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)

February 2, 2022 – 5:28 pm

5. Earth Again They are incomprehensible, the things of this earth. The lure of waters. The lure of fruits. Lure of two breasts and the long hair of a maiden. […]

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Poetry as Devotion, Prayer and Wholeness – The Poetry of Jennifer Grotz – And Quotes on Poetry by Rosemary Griebel and Juleta Seversen-Baker

January 27, 2022 – 9:05 pm

  Poetry, in both its creation and the reading of it, insists on careful listening. Careful listening opens a space for the soul, for revelation, for wholeness. Poems are glimpses […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 40 in a Series – The Gift of Czeslaw Milosz

June 23, 2018 – 1:09 pm

Gift A day so happy Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers There was nothing on earth I wanted to possess. I knew […]

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Singing in Dark Times – #6 in a Series – Good and Bad Times for Poetry

February 26, 2017 – 3:00 pm

Joy. The other taste in sorrow’s cup Guy Gavriel Kay from The Last Light of the Sun, Penguin Canada, 2004 Motto* In the dark times Will there also be singing? […]

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Poetry of Remembrance – Rwanda, April 6th, 1994

April 6, 2014 – 6:34 pm

Dedication You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another. I swear, there is in me no […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – Z is for Zagajewski

June 3, 2012 – 10:45 pm

Try to Praise the Mutilated World Try to praise the mutilated world Remember June’s long days And wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow The […]

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