poetry reading

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Poem of the day: invictus

InvictusBy William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath andContinue reading “Poem of the day: invictus”

Human family; poem of the day

Human FamilyBy Maya Angelou I note the obvious differencesin the human family.Some of us are serious,some thrive on comedy.Some declare their lives are livedas true profundity,and others claim they really livethe real reality.The variety of our skin tonescan confuse, bemuse, delight,brown and pink and beige and purple,tan and blue and white.I’ve sailed upon the sevenContinue reading “Human family; poem of the day”

Poem of the day: the people upstairs

The People UpstairsBy Ogden Nash The people upstairs all practise balletTheir living room is a bowling alleyTheir bedroom is full of conducted tours.Their radio is louder than yours,They celebrate week-ends all the week.When they take a shower, your ceilings leak.They try to get their parties to mixBy supplying their guests with Pogo sticks,And when theirContinue reading “Poem of the day: the people upstairs”

Poem of the day: coal

COALBY AUDRE LORDE IIs the total black, being spokenFrom the earth’s inside.There are many kinds of open.How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking.Some words are openLike a diamond on glass windowsSinging out within the crash of passing sunThen thereContinue reading “Poem of the day: coal”

Poem of the day: Harlem

HARLEM By Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Poem of the day: William street

WILLIAM STREET BY KENNETH SLESSOR The red globe of light, the liquor green,the pulsing arrows and the running firespilt on the stones, go deeper than a stream;You find this ugly, I find it lovelyGhosts’ trousers, like the dangle of hung men,in pawn-shop windows, bumping knee by knee,but none inside to suffer or condemn;You find thisContinue reading “Poem of the day: William street”

Forty years

Forty years by Mary Oliver for forty yearsthe sheets of white paper havepassed under my hands and I have tried to improve their peacefulemptiness putting downlittle curls little shaftsof letters words little flames leapingnot one pagewas less to me than fascinatingdiscursive full of cadence its pale nerves hidingin the curves of the Qsbehind the soldierly Hsin the webbedContinue reading “Forty years”

Solitude

Solitide By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air;The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care.Rejoice,Continue reading “Solitude”

I remember

I REMEMBER By Anne Sexton By the first of Augustthe invisible beetles beganto snore and the grass wasas tough as hemp and wasno color—no more thanthe sand was a color andwe had worn our bare feetbare since the twentiethof June and there were timeswe forgot to wind up youralarm clock and some nightswe took ourContinue reading “I remember”