poets and the art of poetry

Touched by an angel by Maya Angelou

March 29, 2015

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple …

Patience by Rabindranath Tagore

December 3, 2013

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and …

October 7, 2012

Two poems by Louis MacNeice, The Burning Perch, 1963. THE INTRODUCTION They were introduced in a grave glade And she frightened …

April 20, 2012

Incompatibility Higher there, higher, far from the ways, from the farms and the valleys, beyond the trees, beyond the hills …

April 17, 2012

Another poem by Archibald MacLeish http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/baccalaureate/

April 17, 2012

Will it last? he says. Is it a masterpiece? Will generation after generation Turn with reverence to the page? Birdseye …