Tag: springtime poems

• “The Sea” by James Reeves

  

  A poem doesn’t have to be complicated to be wonderful. Poetry can be simple. It can also be quiet profound. It’s often both, at the same time. It gives voice to the world around us, in all its incomprehensible wonder and vastness. It helps us to position ourselves within us, writing hymns and lamentations and…

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  May 19, 2023

  Poetry, Writing

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• 3 Poems for AAPI Month

  

  It’s AAPI month, also known as APA month, which stands for Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month or Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, respectively. To celebrate, here are three poems from Asian-American poets. There’s a ghazal about grief, lost love, and memory from Agha Shahid Ali, published in 2003. There’s an elegy for the passing…

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  May 12, 2023

  Poetry, Writing

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• Melissa Sullivan – “Fade”

  

  Poet and artist Melissa Sullivan reflects on the impermanence of all things in this short, moving springtime poem. Fade All blooms decayPersephone speaks from her Stygian palaceBright blooms are briefDelicate and easily bruisedWe gather our flowers in MayBut we must accept that they too shall fade About Meliss Sullivan Melissa Sullivan is a hedge-wandering art…

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  April 27, 2023

  Poetry, Writing

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