Tag Archives: Jan Zwicky

Z is for Zwicky – A Poem from her 2020 Poetry Collection! And Hello to National Poetry Month!

April 14, 2021 – 8:29 pm

Lullaby Don’t let grief frighten you. Standing outside, in the mind, its silhouette is winged and cavernous. But what brought you here: is past. No need to lock the door. […]

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Three Poetic Riffs on Courage – Part Three – Jan Zwicky

November 21, 2017 – 10:16 pm

  COURAGE And now you know that it won’t turn out as it should that what you did was not enough, that ignorance, old evil, is enforced and willed, and […]

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Three Poetic Riffs on Courage – Part Two – Jack Gilbert

November 21, 2017 – 6:34 pm

The Abnormal Is Not Courage The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers. A magnitude of beauty that allows me […]

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Three Poetic Riffs on Courage – Part One – Jane Mead

November 21, 2017 – 3:53 pm

World of Made and Unmade from Section III * * * How will you spend your courage, her life asks my life No courage spent of bloodshot/gunshot/taproot/eye. How will you […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 22 in a Series – Cohen and Zwicky

November 26, 2016 – 6:46 pm

SUMMER HAIKU for Frank and Marion Scott Silence and a deeper silence when the crickets hesitate Leonard Cohen from Leonard Cohen: Selected Poems 1956-1968, McClelland & Stewart, 1968 I am […]

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