Tag Archives: Denise Levertov

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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Words that Fly Through Our Minds in the Dark! Capture Them! A Poem by Denise Levertov

October 24, 2018 – 11:11 pm

Writing in the Dark It’s not difficult. Anyway, it’s necessary. Wait till morning, and you’ll forget. And who knows if morning will come. Fumble for the light, And you’ll be […]

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Migrations

March 17, 2014 – 4:52 pm

Mid-March. The wild geese are back in the field in front of our house. They remind me of something I wrote back in November when they were heading the other […]

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Grief-struck Remedies – Poems on Sorrow and Grief

June 14, 2013 – 3:23 pm

A merganser is clucking in front of me in a little bay near our cabin on Cortes Island, B.C. I call it clucking but it sounds also like little honks. […]

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Joined by an Award and Much More! – Luci Shaw, Denise Levertov and Reflections on Faith and Spirit in Poetry

June 1, 2013 – 7:06 pm

Overhead The sun is a slow gong in a brass bowl, the moon also rings her bell against the indigo steel of the night sky. By painting, Emily Carr decoded […]

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