Short Poem of the Day

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Daily short poems from the past and present. 🙂

7-Day-Candle Choosing sin over chance of fire I blow out the flame burning in a glass cyl. on my 5th day of mourning Hardening wax coats the blue sixpointed star above the letters InMemoriam Blackened wick quivers in a pool of melt Have I hobbled my father's soul?

Poem of the Day 📝 Optimistic Man as a child he never plucked the wings off flies he didn't tie tin cans to cats' tails or lock beetles in matchboxes or stomp anthills he grew up and all those things were done to him I was at his bedside when he died N. Hikmet

Short Poem of the Day. 📝 I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't Dawnlight freezes against the east-wire. The guards cough 'raus! We flinch and grin, Our flesh oozing towards its last outrage. That which is taken from me is not mine. Geoffrey Hill

Short Poem of the Day 📝 The wonder is how a tree scribbles on the sky how the sky plagiarizes without shame how the earth turns page after page of grass and we know this to be the only handwriting on the wall Jan Seale

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Theology There is a heaven, for ever, day by day, The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so. There is a hell, I'm quite as sure; for pray, If there were not, where would my neighbors go? Paul Laurence Dunbar (U.S.A., 1872–1906)

Short Poem of the Day 📝 Ritual After dinner every night, my father, standing by the sink, would fill a glass with water, place one fisted hand behind his hip, throw back his head, and drink until it was empty. Barry George

Poem/Day 📝 Dead Letters People die, and the mail keeps coming. I know this because the video catalogues come back to me. The mourners scrawl "DECEASED" in block letters across Keira Knightley's cheek. I update the database. delete the dead. Sari Krosinsky

📝 Forbidden Mystery There is a mystery even questioning is a crime, 'profane', 'scandalous' I wanted to question the mystery, the myths that went on for centuries. Then I realized the questions are truer, stronger than those myths! I stopped asking. AS