Today's poem: Dolor by Theodore Roethke
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Conversation
Reposting yesterday's poem: Excerpt from Junk by Tommy Pico
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Here's another poem by Theodore Roethke: Plaint
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And another: The Waking by Theodore Roethke
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One more: My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
divasofverse.com/2014/06/my-pap
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This was the poem of the day four years ago:
A Song at the End of the World by Czesław Miłosz
divasofverse.com/2015/01/a-song
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This was the poem of the day two years ago:
Special Orders by Edward Hirsch
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This was the poem of the day last year:
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
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Weed Puller by Theodore Roethke
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Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke
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The Far Field by Theodore Roethke
divasofverse.com/2016/05/the-fa
The Surly One by Theodore Roethke
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Epidermal Macabre by Theodore Roethke
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Replying to
The Surly One
When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whiskey from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh
I keep a dog, and bark myself.
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Ghost cries out to ghost–
But whose afraid of that?
I feel those shadows most
That start from my own feet.

