Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “poetry”
I have done a lot of research on domestic (intimate partner) violence. One of the cautions that comes up again and again in these cases is that strangling (use of a chokehold) leaves no marks, yet can do unimaginable damage as it cuts off oxygen to the brain. Very often, a strangulation attempt is that last violent action before murder. …
by Langston Hughes (For a Black Mother) My little dark baby, My little earth-thing, My little love-one, What shall I sing For your lullaby? Stars, Stars, A necklace of stars Winding the night. My little black baby, My dark body’s baby, What shall I sing For your lullaby? Moon, Moon, Great diamond moon, Kissing the night. Oh, little dark baby, …
Los Angeles announced a while back that a Metro bus card will feature the poem “Gift,” by Czeslaw Milosz. The Metro people said, “Poetry can soothe the soul of many a traveler. The poetry cards on Metro Buses – you’ll find them scattered about in that indented ledge above the windows – have become a welcome respite from a busy …
a poem by Garous Abdolmalekian There are characters in mewho do not talk to each otherwho fill each other with griefwho have never dined at the same table In me there are characterswho write their own poetry with my handswho flip through stacks of bills with my handswho make fists of my handswho place my hands on the sofa edgeand …
How I love this poem! If you like “Charlotte’s Web,” by E.B. White, you may like this poem, too. It’s written by Sarah Freligh, and was published in The Sun Magazine, August 2012. Wondrous I’m driving home from school when the radio talk turns to E.B. White, his birthday, and I exit the here and now of the freeway at rush …
~a poem by Sharon Olds. Finally they got the Singles problem under control, they made it scientific. They opened huge Sex Centers—you could simply go and state what you want and they would find you someone who wanted that too. You would stand under a sign saying I Like to Be Touched and Held and when someone came and stood under the …
has left me feeling vaguely sick and I think a walk is probably the answer, is often said to be the answer, though I now understand physical intervention must not be undertaken lightly and the appropriate training must be given because the policy is designed to prevent the impairment of health or development even though it has had the opposite …