June 2010
Self in 1958, Anne Sexton →
littlebat:funeral:
What is reality? I am a plaster doll; I pose with eyes that cut open without landfall or nightfall upon some shellacked and grinning person, eyes that open, blue, steel, and close. Am I approximately an I. Magnin transplant? I have hair, black angel, black angel-stuffing to comb, nylon legs, luminous arms and some advertised clothes. I live in a doll’s house with...
Poetry 365: Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows,... →
There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Stilled, silvered as water in a glass Nothing is big or far. The small shrew chitters from its wilderness Of grassheads and is heard. Each thumb-size bird Flits nimble-winged in thickets, and of good colour.
Cloudrack and owl-hollowed willows…
May 2010
l'arte della poesia.: Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry by... →
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Give me back my book and take my kiss instead. Was it my enemy or my friend I heard, “What a big book for such a little head!” Come, I will show you now my newest hat, And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink! Oh, I shall love you still, and all of…
Study: Plant Oils Highly Effective Against... →
“Researchers say oils distilled from plants are highly effective against drug-resistant bacterial infections and could prove to be an inexpensive way to combat super-bugs found in hospital settings.
For hundreds of years, different cultures have used so-called essential oils from plants to treat a variety of illnesses from arthritis to skin infections and sore throats. Now, researchers at...
“Yes. Yes I am. I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to...”
– Lady Gaga (via thewayshewalks) (via ilovethatlavenderblonde) (via batwithbutterflywings)
“…[E]ach of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t...”
– Laura Esquivel
Malawi's President Orders Gay Couple Freed From... →
“Malawi’s president on Saturday pardoned and ordered the release of a gay couple sentenced to 14 years in prison, but said that homosexuality remains illegal in this conservative southern African nation.
Activists were searching for a safe house for the couple, fearing they could be attacked upon release.
Malawi has faced international condemnation for the conviction and harsh...
“There is a dialectic of wandering and homeland at the heart of Arabic poetry....”
– Gated Community III : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation (via clingtomymouth) (via poetrynews) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
– Eckhart Tolle (via oceanofmind)
“Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not...”
– Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
(via veganation)(via batwithbutterflywings, ladimcbeth)
l'arte della poesia.: Well, I Have Lost You by... →
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely Went to their deaths more proud than this one went. Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping I will confess; but that’s permitted me; Day dried my eyes; I was not…
loveyourchaos:
I Am a Revenant // The...
Poets for Living Waters →
poetrynews:
Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the Gulf Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catastrophes in history. The first law of ecology states that everything is connected to everything else. An appreciation of this systemic connectivity suggests a wide range of poetry will offer a meaningful response to the current crisis,...
