December Woman
...In the inner courtyard of the December night
Love is cultivating endlessly in the heart of the lover
The land of attraction is awakening with the immortal attraction of the prayer
He is not a man ...
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Categories:
merwin, love,
Form: Free verse
Astute Nifty Litterateur
...W-riter
I-s
L-etting
L-ine
I-mplement
A-crostic
M-use
S-o
T-he
A-stute
N-ifty
L-itterateur
E-rases
Y-our
M-ind's
E-motional
R-egret
W-ith
I-nspiring
N-ote
Topic: Birthday of...
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Categories:
merwin, birthday, poets,
Form: Acrostic
Old Dead Poets
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I admire great poets old,
perusing the tragic ends.
Researching their writing styles and patterns
their layouts, rhyming, punctuation, moods,
in dark solitude they penned dreadful words...
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Categories:
merwin, old, poets,
Form: Blank verse
Bittersweet
...so this is the way the night tastes...
looking back I couldn't tell,
in pencil at the beginning
worn flights of steps, from before the war
smaller, until they were gone
but in the mirror,...
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Categories:
merwin, grandmother, image, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
W.S. Merwin
...W.S. Merwin,
Our Poet Laureate,
Lives on Maui,
A 30$ plane ticket from me.
He spoke on NPR today
Of poetry, and writing, and the "unknown."
He spoke like a man with an award.
I've never read...
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Categories:
merwin, on writing and words
Form: Free verse