Favorite Poems of the Day Up to Date: 21/08/2009

As some of you know I’ve taken upon myself to try and publish a link to a poem i like per day on Twitter: #PoemOfTheDay.

Admittedly, I havent been able to keep it up everyday since I started but I did manage  to share quite a few over the past few months.

I’d like to take the opportunity to collect some of my personal recent favorites in this post.

Enjoy!

August 19th 2009 – “Metallic Wing” by Efrat Mishori:
http://tinyurl.com/mdlv57
– “Metallic wing in its socket, beating unseen.”

August 18th 2009 – “Pleasure for Pleasure” by Peter Stavropoulos:
http://bit.ly/3Y7S4O
– “…Pleasure for pleasure will surely start”

August 13th 2009 – “Night Heron” by Samuel Peralta:
http://bit.ly/rtZ1m
– “rising from the waters / like a dream.”

August 11th 2009 – “Sonnet 56” by William Shakespeare:
http://bit.ly/hPEcw
– “Sweet love, renew thy force! Be it not said…”

August 10th 2009 – “from: Prayers of Atonement” by Lea Goldberg
http://bit.ly/klx4t
-”If there were torments–then they voyaged toward you”

August 3rd 2009 – “Endless Poem” by Yehuda Amichai:
http://bit.ly/jGQ7o
– “Within me / My heart / Within my heart / A museum”

July 30th 2009 – “Listening” by Amy Lowell:
http://bit.ly/1K8pK
– “‘T is you that are the music, not your song…”

July 27th 2009 – “The Garden” by Mark Strand:
http://bit.ly/rSKuf
– “it shines: even now in the moment before it disappears.”

July 26th 2009 – “Song of Hope” by Thomas Hardy:
http://bit.ly/n4rlU
– “To-morrow shines soon -Shines soon!”

July 21st 2009 – “On Pain” by Khalil Gibran:
http://bit.ly/vmHgr
– “…your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy…”

July 17th 2009 - “Petals” by Amy Lowell:
http://twurl.nl/s5v6ai
– “…Petal by petal the flower of our heart…”

July 16th 2009 – “When the Eyes Open” by Dahlia Ravikovitz:
http://bit.ly/Z8Re0
-”as the soul returns to the body when the eyes open.”

July 15th 2009 – “Touched by an Angel” by Maya Angelou:
http://bit.ly/uAerx
– “Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

July 12th 2009 – “A Pearl, a Girl” by Robert Browning:
http://bit.ly/6rDpB
-”…Through the love in a girl!”

July 10th 2009 – “Valentine” by Carol Ann Duffy:
http://bit.ly/YMoIj
-”I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper…”

July 4th 2009 – “Moonwalk” by Samuel Peralta :
http://bit.ly/4sbHqx
-”…The words begin to form a song / The melody begins to burn…”

July 3rd 2009 – “Wild Nights” by Emily Dickinson:
http://bit.ly/qOMhk
-”…Wild nights should be Our luxury!…”

July 1st 2009 – “If You Forget Me” by Pablo Neruda:
http://bit.ly/1j9EgT
-”if each day,each hour,you feel that you are destined for..”