Tag Archives: W.S. Merwin

Our Burning World – Poems and Other Writing by W.S. Merwin, Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford and Katie Farris

June 30, 2023 – 8:56 pm

In this trembling moment, with light armor under several flags rolling across northern Syria, with civilians beaten to death in the streets of occupied Palestine, with fires roaring across the […]

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Three on Trees by Merwin for Earth Day 2021 and a Quote by Terry Tempest Williams, A Cry Out For Us To Be Attached to Our World, Its Nouns!

April 22, 2021 – 10:11 pm

PLACE On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not for the fruit the tree that bears the fruit is not the […]

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Absences Gone Through Me – R.I.P. W.S. Merwin and Patrick Lane – The Bigness of Small Poems – # 27 in a Series – Updated and Revised

March 15, 2019 – 10:59 pm

EARLY ONE SUMMER Years from now someone will come upon a layer of birds and not know what he is listening for these are the days when the beetles hurry […]

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Poems for the Summer Solstice – # 2 in a Series – W.S. Merwin

June 17, 2018 – 3:12 pm

Summer Be of this brightness dyed Whose unrecking fever Flings gold before it goes Into voids finally That have no measure. Bird-sleep, moonset, Island after island, Be of their hush […]

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Synchronicity – A Sweetness to Savour on New Year’s Day 2018 – Another Tribute to W.S. Merwin

January 1, 2018 – 5:20 pm

A Momentary Creed I believe in the ordinary day that is here at the moment and is me I do not see it going its own way but I never […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 27 in a Series – W.S. Merwin, American Master of Small Poems!

December 31, 2016 – 9:34 pm

EARLY ONE SUMMER Years from now someone will come upon a layer of birds and not know what he is listening for these are the days when the beetles hurry […]

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