A Moment in Summer
By Charlotte Zolotow, US. A moment in summerbelongs to meand one particularhoney bee.A moment in summershimmering clearmaking the skyseem very near,a moment in summerbelongs to …
I measure every Grief I meet (561)
By Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886. I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, eyes – I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an …
A Song of the Rolling Earth: 3
By Walt Whitman. Find the other passages here: https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/95 I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The …
From Sand and Foam
By Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanon. Submitted by Leslie Robertson, who likely didn’t expect me to post the whole passage from which she quoted. This passage …
Seven men on the rock upon the house
By Marion Sarain Stump, 1945-1974, Cree/Shoshone/Salish, U.S./Canada. Seven men on the rock upon the houseThe deadman’s head is laughingAt my mistakesA lazy flyin’ of crows …
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
By Mary Elizabeth Frye, 1932, U.S. Do not stand at my grave and weepI am not there; I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds …
Joan Crate reads I am a Prophet from Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson
By Joan Crate, Metis/Canada, uploaded by Brick Books Feb 19, 2013.
Hurricane
By Yona Harvey, U.S. Four tickets left, I let her go—Firstborn into a hurricane. I thought she escapedThe floodwaters. No—but her Head is empty of …
The War Against The Trees
By Stanley Kunitz, 1905-2006, U.S. The man who sold his lawn to standard oilJoked with his neighbors come to watch the showWhile the bulldozers, drunk …
Not The Heaven of Raccoons
By Julie Berry, Canada. philosophically and logistically speakingthere are some problems with my theoryof separate heavens for separate peopleas my sister pointed out the other …