This jewel is today's poem: The Abandoned Valley by Jack Gilbert
divasofverse.com/2020/04/the-ab
Conversation
Reposting yesterday's poem: What the Body Can Say by Natasha Trethewey
divasofverse.com/2020/04/what-b
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Reposting the poem of the day before: You Will Know When You Get There by Allen Curnow
divasofverse.com/2020/04/you-wi
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Here's another poem by Jack Gilbert: Dreaming at the Ballet
divasofverse.com/2015/11/dreami
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And another: The Lost Hotels of Paris by Jack Gilbert
divasofverse.com/2015/04/the-lo
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One more: A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert
divasofverse.com/2013/12/a-brie
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This was the poem of the day six years ago:
At Thomas Merton’s Grave by Spencer Reece
divasofverse.com/2014/04/at-tho
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This was the poem of the day four years ago:
An Imaginary City by Mahmud al-Braykan
divasofverse.com/2016/04/an-ima
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This was the poem of the day three years ago:
The Shout by Simon Armitage
divasofverse.com/2017/04/the-sh
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This was the poem of the day last year:
Hunger by Ama Codjoe
divasofverse.com/2019/04/hunger
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Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert
divasofverse.com/2016/10/failin
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert
divasofverse.com/2019/03/the-fo
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Replying to
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
...some of my favorite lines in poetry
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