September 13, 2022 – 7:04 pm
Physician You sit at the head of the table. You say you have wanted to write about— not depression, it is worse than that, it is rock bottom: the frightfulness. People don’t like to hear about it, you say to a friend. People don’t like to read about it, he answered— and then you knew […]
Share this post on your social networks!
By Richard Osler
|
Posted in Poetry
|
Also tagged I Go Back to May 1937, Luck, Muriel Ruleyser, Pegasus Awards, Physician, Poetry East 1999, Poetry magazine, poetry therapy, Ruth Lilly prize, Sharon Olds, The 2022 Frost Medal, The Poetry Foundation
|
February 28, 2019 – 5:27 pm
Days What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields. 3 August, 1953 Philip Larkin, from […]
Share this post on your social networks!
January 24, 2018 – 9:08 pm
Luck Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven. Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 What a way it was to begin a poetry reading! But that’s how Sharon […]
Share this post on your social networks!
January 23, 2018 – 9:11 pm
Final Curve When you turn the corner And run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) from Poetry for Young People Langston Hughes, Sterling Publishing Co., 2006 Langston Hughes was a celebrated black American poet who was considered a poetic innovator especially […]
Share this post on your social networks!
