Tag Archives: Small Poems

The Bigness of Small Poems – #43 in a Series -This Morning, a Yellow Wheelbarrow

February 7, 2019 – 4:11 pm

This Morning, a Yellow Wheelbarrow I hear the chords, the deep thrum, from a yellow wheelbarrow on its side after snow in a morning garden. The light singing there, yellow […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 43 in a Series – Patrizia Cavalli’s Honeyed Dome

October 2, 2018 – 7:42 am

What is lost is returned to me, what is far away is near me today, Whether you’re here, wherever you are, doesn’t matter today, today I am held within a […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 36 in a Series – Smiling at the Other’s Welcome – Langston Hughes and Derek Walcott

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 […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems # 34 in a Series – Winter Solstice – Winter Poems by Sarah, MacLeod, Lane, Crozier

December 21, 2017 – 11:24 pm

  Solstice A sly gift it is, that on the year’s shortest day, the sun stays longest in this house – extends the wand of its slow slant and distant […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – #33 in a Series – The Ah! Ha! Genius of Jack Gilbert

September 2, 2017 – 10:49 pm

The Cucumbers of Praxilla of Sicyon What is the best we leave behind? Certainly love and form and ourselves. Surely those. But it is the mornings that are hard to […]

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