Blogs about: National Poetry Month 2008
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Poverty
By Pablo Neruda Ah you don’t want to, you’re scared of poverty, you don’t want to go to the market with worn-out shoes and come back with the same old dress. My love, we are not fond as the rich would… more →
Creative Ashes
The List
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: By Naomi Shihab Nye A man told me he had calculated the exact number of books he would be able to re … more →
Poverty
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: By Pablo Neruda Ah you don’t want to, you’re scared of poverty, you don’t want to go to the market w … more →
I Shall Be Released
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Kevin Young What we love will leave us or is it we leave what we love, I forget— Today, belly ful … more →
Amaryllis
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Ted Kooser A flower needs to be this size to conceal the winter window, and this color, the red o … more →
Love In Black And White
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Bianca Rossini with photographs by Michael Kenna … more →
Children in a Field
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Angela Shaw They don’t wade in so much as they are taken. Deep in the day, in the deep of t … more →
Silent Music
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Floyd Skloot My wife wears headphones as she plays Chopin etudes in the winter light. Singing ran … more →
New Water
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Sharon Chmielarz All those years–almost a hundred– the farm had hard water. Hard oran … more →
They Sit Together on the Porch
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Wendell Berry They sit together on the porch, the dark Almost fallen, the house behind them dark. … more →
A Body Distant Brought Near
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Kathleen Adcock Sitting on the moon’s rim all that can be seen is her mountains, flatland, … more →
Tell Yourself
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Mark Strand; read by Mary Louise Parker. And when you done watching and listening take some time … more →
Flirtation
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: By Rita Dove – The first African-American woman to be named Poet Laureate of the United States … more →
"Since why to love I can allege no cause"
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Roger Mitchell “Since why to love I can allege no cause,” I will love instead, leavin … more →
A SONNET FOR NAPALM
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by H. PALMER HALL “Tell me something,” she says. “Do any flowers look just like t … more →
Word
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Madeleine L’Engle I, who live by words, am wordless when I try my words in prayer. All lan … more →
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by John Donne Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion … more →
Poetry Out Loud
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: Worth the watch! Poetry Out Loud … more →
Ox Cart Man
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: by Donald Hall In October of the year, he counts potatoes dug from the brown field, counting the see … more →
Three Poems by Jane Kenyon
Chip Cain wrote 7 months ago: Jane Kenyon is another favorite poet of mine. Her poems are usually short often touching someplace p … more →
