 - Michael Chabon
 Sep 23, 5:51pm  (34 reviews) poetry http://www.michaelchabon.com/Michael_Cha...
- I do not love you as if you were salt
- Sep 18, 6:52pm (103 reviews) poetry http://www.michaelpalmer.net/Other%20Pag...
- sachins soapbox: January 2006
- Sep 17, 8:57pm
 (2 reviews) poetry, poem, vitamin-c, oranges http://sachindshah.blogspot.com/2006_01_... - The Orange
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
An orange ruled the world.
It was an unexpected thing, the temporary abdication of Heavenly Providence, entrusting the whole matter to a simple orange.
The orange, in a grove in Florida, humbly accepted the honor. The other oranges, the birds, and the men in their tractors wept with joy; the tractors' motors rumbled hymns of praise.
Airplane pilots passing over would circle the grove and tell their passengers, "Below us is the grove where the orange who rules the world grows on a simple branch." And the passengers would be silent with awe.
The governor of Florida declared every day a holiday. On summer afternoons the Dalai Lama would come to the grove and sit with the orange, and talk about life.
When the time came for the orange to be picked, none of the migrant workers would do it: they went on strike. The foremen wept. The other oranges swore they would turn sour. But the orange who ruled the world said, "No, my friends; it is time."
Finally a man from Chicago, with a heart as windy and cold as Lake Michigan in wintertime, was brought in. He put down his briefcase, climbed up on a ladder, and picked the orange. The birds were silent and the clouds had gone away. The orange thanked the man from Chicago.
They say that when the orange went through the national produce processing and distribution system, certain machines turned to gold, truck drivers had epiphanies, aging rural store managers called their estranged lesbian daughters on Wall Street and all was forgiven.
I bought the orange who ruled the world for 39 cents at Safeway three days ago, and for three days he sat in my fruit basket and was my teacher. Today, he told me, "it is time," and I ate him.
Now we are on our own again.
- W.H. Auden - Their Lonely Betters
- Sep 3, 11:57pm (1 review) birds, poetry, w-h-auden http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/auden...
- From the page:
"As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade
To all the noises that my garden made,
It seemed to me only proper that words
Should be withheld from vegetables and birds.
A robin with no Christian name ran through
The Robin-Anthem which was all it knew,
And rustling flowers for some third party waited
To say which pairs, if any, should get mated.
Not one of them was capable of lying,
There was not one which knew that it was dying
Or could have with a rhythm or a rhyme
Assumed responsibility for time.
Let them leave language to their lonely betters
Who count some days and long for certain letters;
We, too, make noises when we laugh or weep:
Words are for those with promises to keep.
"
- Arabic Poetry arab Poems adab.com Love Compared
- Sep 3, 9:55pm (28 reviews) poetry http://www.adab.com/en/modules.php?name=...
- The Academy of American Poets - When a Woman Loves a Man
- Aug 24, 10:43am (2 reviews) poetry http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMI...
- Poets Corner - Ezra Pound - Selected Works
- Jul 29, 3:11pm (3 reviews) poetry, elegy http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/pound...
- From the page: "Ione, Dead the Long Year
EMPTY are the ways,
Empty are the ways of this land
And the flowers
Bend over with heavy heads.
They bend in vain.
Empty are the ways of this land
Where Ione
Walked once, and now does not walk
But seems like a person just gone.
Ezra Pound"
- http://www.minonktalk.com/pics/p94dwarfhorse3.jpg
- Jul 28, 7:43pm (1 review) horses, nature, poetry, robert-frost, ws-merwin http://www.minonktalk.com/pics/p94dwarfh...
- i love the mini. thanks to MrVader2U for the image. and the reminder of the poem i loved so much by WS Merwin. then the other one i loved by Frost. and this one by ee cummings.
The Little Horse Is Newly
e.e. cummings
the little horse is newlY
Born)he knows nothing,and feels
everything;all around whom is
perfectly a strange
ness(Of sun
light and of fragrance and of
Singing)is ev
erywhere(a welcom
ing dream:is amazing)
a worlD.and in
this world lies:smoothbeautifuL
ly folded;a(brea
thing a gro
Wing)silence,who;
is:somE
oNe.
- &8220;Death and Life&8221; |Futility Closet
- Jul 22, 9:55pm (60 reviews) poetry http://www.futilitycloset.com/2008/06/12...
- YouTube - Forgetfulness - Billy Collins Animated Poetry
- Jul 14, 7:48pm (5 reviews) poetry, video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrEPJh14m...
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