Today's poem: There is a sacred, secret line in loving by Anna Akhmatova
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Reposting yesterday's poem: The President Visits the Storm by Shane McCrae
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Reposting the poem of the day before: Anything but Standard by Edward Hirsch
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Here's another poem by Anna Akhmatova: The Last Toast
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And another: The Muse by Anna Akhmatova
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One more: Lot's Wife by Anna Akhmatova
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This was the poem of the day five years ago:
A Cold Front by William Carlos Williams
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This was the poem of the day four years ago:
Ode to the Unbroken World, Which Is Coming by Thomas Lux
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This was the poem of the day three years ago:
Jasmine by Yusef Komunyakaa
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This was the poem of the day two years ago:
Bent Tones by C. D. Wright
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This was the poem of the day last year:
In a Country by Larry Levis
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
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I like this poem, but isn’t it almost an exact replica of Yeats’ Leda and the Swan?
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Exact? No. I just read both. The comparison is fascinating (thank you) but not the same, I don’t think.
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Sorry; of course it’s not exact. And replica isn’t a good word. I just couldn’t think how to say what I wanted to say. The first line of the third verse is what caught me. I like the poem.
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Also thank you for posting so many poems I would not otherwise have encountered.

