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Suzanne Delaney
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Suzanne is a Retired Registered Nurse certified in Med/Surg. She began writing poetry  in 1998. Since retiring she has participated in poetry groups both in the Community and on-line. She is originally from Australia, has lived in the Hawaiian Islands for most of her adult life and now lives on the mainland US.  Her poetry is a mixture from all these  places.   In her writing she has explored many forms but finds ease of expression mostly in free verse.  Her poems are included in an Anthology "A Bridge to ALL Nations."with other poets from  Connie's site: Poetry for Thought. One of the greatest joys in her life was to be contacted by Carol Mays, a fellow Souper, to publish an Anthology together, titled, " Poems of Nature, Enchantment and Mystery, available in Paperback and Kindle on Amazon. Here is a link.

https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Nature-Enchantment-Mystery-Carol/dp/B086MN2K6X

Suzanne has three poems included in the PS It's Poetry Anthology and three poems in PS: It's Still Poetry - An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Around the World also available on Amazon and most recently, three poems in "Radiant Vereses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry.". https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNWGWTFZ  

and is also a regular Contributor to Old Mountain Press Anthologies with poems accepted in the 10 most recent publications. 

http://www.oldmp.com/anthology/booksinprint.htm

 

 

 

 

 

My 'Old Poetry Friends' for Viv

Blog Posted by Suzanne Delaney: 7/15/2015 5:42:00 PM

Here is my list of ‘old friends’ that Viv asked me to compile.
I have included a couple of lines from each poem in case you want to read a sample.  If I had added the whole poem my blog would be a mile long.

I might add I have added more than one poem from some poets because I couldn’t choose a favorite.

I hope you enjoy discovering these, if they are not already ‘old friends’ of yours’.

 Google or Bing will find them all for you by title. Some Poets have different translators giving their interpretation of the same poem. This is true for Rimbaud, Lorca and Rilke.
Best  to read a few different translations to find your favorite. For example my favorite translation of Rilke’s SIxth Elegy is translated by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann)

Let me know what you think of my ‘friends.’

Walking Asleep

Green as I would have you be.
Green wind. Green boughs.
The boat on the sea
And the horse on the mountain.
With shadow around her waist
She is dreaming at her railing,
Green flesh, green hair,
Eyes of frozen silver.
Green as I would have you be.
Under the gypsy moon,
Things are watching her,
Things she cannot see.
(excerpt)
from "The Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca"
translated by Rolfe Humphries
Indiana University Press, 1953

Rainer Marie Rilke

from The First Elegy

True, it is strange to inhabit the earth no longer,
to use no longer customs scarcely acquired,
not to interpret roses, and other things
that promise so much, in terms of a human future;
to be no longer all that one used to be
in endlessly anxious hands, and to lay aside
even one's proper name like a broken toy.
(excerpt)

The Sixth Elegy

From The Duino Elegies

by Rainer Maria Rilke

(Translated by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann)

Fig tree, for how long have I found meaning
in the way you almost skip the flowering
and thrust your pure mystery,
unsung, into the early set fruit.
(excerpt)

Pied Beauty

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
(excerpt)

To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley
HAIL to Thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert.
(excerpt)

Sea Surface Full Of Clouds
Wallace Stevens

I
In that November off Tehuantepec,
The slopping of the sea grew still one night
And in the morning summer hued the deck
And made one think of rosy chocolate

(excerpt)

 

The Drunken Boat
Drifting down the impassive river
I no longer felt the tug
Of barge hands pulling at their ropes:

(excerpt)


Translated by Oliver Bernard : Arthur Rimbaud, Collected Poems (1962)

or another translation of the same poem is by   Michael W. Dwyer. 1998

The Jaguar

Ted Hughes
The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun.
The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut
Like cheap tarts to attract the stroller with the nut.
Fatigued with indolence, tiger and lion.

(excerpt)

The Thought Fox

Ted Hughes

I imagine this midnight moment's forest:

Something else is alive

Besides the clock's loneliness

And this blank page where my fingers move.

(excerpt)

e. e. cummings - somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

(excerpt)

now does our world descend

e. e. cummings
now does our world descend 
the path to nothingness 
(cruel now cancels kind;
(excerpt)

Not in Vain

If I can stop one Heart from breaking

I shall not live in vain

If I can ease one Life the Aching

Or cool one Pain

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again

I shall not live in Vain

Emily Dickenson

{full poem}

I Knew a Woman

by Theodore Roethke

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
(excerpt)

 


 

 



 

 


 

 
 

 

 

 



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Viv
Wigley
Date: 7/17/2015 12:52:00 PM
Thanks for tossing in your two penn'orth, Suzy. A nice idea to throw in a few lines, as nobody can resist a door left slightly ajar to look inside, when it comes to Poetry. There are some that I, and I'm sure many others, will wish to explore. Old friends make new friends. Which is nice. Viv x
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Suzanne Delaney
Date: 7/18/2015 12:46:00 AM
Hi Viv: Yes it is nice. I made the blog so I could give a longer reply. These reply boxes have a 400 Character limit as you know, I am so happy you found some you would like to explore. So many poets so little time. SuZ xox
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James Marshall
Goff
Date: 7/16/2015 1:03:00 PM
thanks Suzanne.....I always, immediately fall hard into Emily Dickinson's poems.....simple, collected short thoughts like her poem "To Make A Prairie" actually is inscribed on long outdoor sitting bench in next town over where my Ma lives....Eden Prairie" also where i go to an Indian grocery to pick up my goat meat & eggplant & chilies to make biyrani! jimbo
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Suzanne Delaney
Date: 7/16/2015 7:06:00 PM
Hi James: yes she had such a way with words and rhyme. We can think aloud with her. Your Birani sounds delish!!! SuZ
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Charmaine
Chircop
Date: 7/16/2015 12:00:00 PM
I love cummings and the last one by Theodore..I will visit the poems later. Thanks for sharing.Your friends are now my own : ).
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Suzanne Delaney
Date: 7/16/2015 7:03:00 PM
Thanks Charmaine: Nice that we have similar tastes. Happy you can revisit them. SuZ
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Andrea
Dietrich
Date: 7/15/2015 11:45:00 PM
I was scanning some of these and really loved that one about rosy chocolate and the last one on the list. Others too of course. Those just stood out to me.
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Suzanne Delaney
Date: 7/16/2015 2:47:00 AM
Hi there Nice to see you: yes Andrea: When you have time google the whole poems- they really are worth the read, Thanks for replying. I spent about two hours finding these poems and doing the blog this morning. I thought it was going to go without one response on it, Take care, SuZ

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