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    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach
    By Daniel Leach
    • 1 day ago
    • 1 min

    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach

    The branch seems to float In sky’s image in water— Both are reflections. The desolation, To one with a quiet soul, Is like a refuge. Like...
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    Listening to "Dry Salvages"
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
    • 1 day ago
    • 5 min

    Listening to "Dry Salvages"

    T.S. Eliot protested at the critics’ tendency to interpret literary works through the lens of the writer’s biography, but hypocritically,...
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    Three Stages Squared
    By Jeffrey Essmann
    • 1 day ago
    • 2 min

    Three Stages Squared

    After Christina Rossetti’s "Three Stages" 1. I fastened all my wishes on a star, Although the physics that it satisfied Presumed the...
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    Late Imperial Woes
    By Craig Dobson
    • 3 days ago
    • 2 min

    Late Imperial Woes

    I anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great...
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    Falling Through Water & Mountain Stream
    By Rowland Hughes
    • 6 days ago
    • 2 min

    Falling Through Water & Mountain Stream

    Falling Through Water Your eyes face a fading light, searching the sway of a young man whose footprints are shadows on a dark sea. You...
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    Longing by Friedrich Schiller
    Translation
    • 7 days ago
    • 2 min

    Longing by Friedrich Schiller

    If I could escape this valley Where the gloomy vapors creep, By some wonder finally flee, My soul would blessedly weep! Gazing upon this...
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    Beyond the Lines: Wordsworth’s “Ode” (Intimations of Immortality)
    By Adam Sedia
    • Jun 14
    • 25 min

    Beyond the Lines: Wordsworth’s “Ode” (Intimations of Immortality)

    Wordsworth contends with Blake as “the poet of childhood.” His particular strain of Romanticism saw in the innocence of childhood a...
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    Trois Matelots du Port de Brest
    By Johnny Payne
    • Jun 13
    • 2 min

    Trois Matelots du Port de Brest

    Three ships sailed on a sea’s soft swell, a small sea, but one full of wrecks. In those wrecks, drowned men, their spent bones and from...
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    Forever & Other Poems
    By Martin McCarthy
    • Jun 9
    • 2 min

    Forever & Other Poems

    Forever We are way out here on the edge of town, and a breathless, gushing ocean clings to your tidewash of shards. We are way out here...
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    Listening to "East Coaker"
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
    • Jun 4
    • 6 min

    Listening to "East Coaker"

    In the introduction to this five part series I proposed that there were three elements of Eliot’s poetry that were necessary to best...
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    I Marvel
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • Jun 2
    • 6 min

    I Marvel

    I marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in...
    15
    Danaë
    John H. B. Martin
    • Jun 2
    • 1 min

    Danaë

    We have been promised gold like this before … But, now it glows on trees, we can't ignore it. One day we'll harvest it … Or mine it,...
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