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Doubt & Contemplation

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  • Poem
    By Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
    1 Plants and rocks lay under night sky; ground is a subject of sky; the relation's a force.
    I combine…
  • Poem
    By Dorothy Parker
    Unto seventy years and seven,
       Hide your double birthright well—
    You, that are the brat of Heaven
       And …
  • Poem
    By Countee Cullen
    What if you come
    Again and swell
    The throat of some
    Mute bird;
    How shall I tell?
    How shall I know.
    That it is so,
    Having heard?
  • Poem
    By Camille T. Dungy
    Ask me if I speak for the snail and I will tell you
    I speak for the snail.
                             speak of underneathedness
    and the welcome of mosses,
                                           of life that springs up,
    little lives that pull back and wait for a moment.
  • Poem
    By Meredith Stricker
    I was thinking of some of the messages Rilke will never receive: — dentist called abt your appt tomorrow…
  • Poem
    By H.D.
    O, do not bring snow-water
    but fresh snow;
    I would be bathed with stars,

    new fallen from heaven, 
    one with…
  • Poem
    By H.D.
    Or is it a great tide that covers the rock-pool
    so that it and the rock are indistinguishable

    from the…
  • Poem
    By Afrizal Malna
    Translated By Daniel Owen
    Desember adalah penggaris yang lurus, lurus sekali,
    dan putus dalam kelurusannya. Putus yang
    tersembunyi dalam patahannya sendiri, putus yang
    melihat kesunyian dari patahannya sendiri.

    Dan angin, dan yang mengerang di bawah penggaris,
    dan berkata, dan besok—JanuariJanuari—akan
    datang melalui jalur yang lalu. Jalur dengan bau
    rempah-rempah, gula, kopi,...
  • Poem
    By Afrizal Malna
    Translated By Daniel Owen
    December is a straight ruler, very straight,
    and broken in its straightness. A break
    hidden in its fracture, a break that
    sees silence from its fracture.

    And wind, and what groans below a ruler,
    and speaking, and tomorrow—JanuaryJanuary—will
    come along a past path. A path that...
  • Poem
    By Emily Dickinson
    I'm Nobody! Who are you?
    Are you - Nobody - too?
    Then there's a pair of us!
    Dont tell! they'd banish…
  • Poem
    By Thomas Warton the younger
    Beneath yon ruin'd abbey's moss-grown pilesOft let me sit, at twilight hour of eve,Where thro' some …
  • Poem
    By Adrian Matejka
    because of want & tumble?
    Because of word crumbles in the kitchen’s halogen?
    No. Separate bedrooms for…
  • Poem
    By Ellen Bass
    What if you knew you'd be the last
    to touch someone?
    If you were taking tickets, for example,
    at the theater…
  • Poem
    By Nick Flynn
    Saint Augustine preached humility &
    the need to simply be on the ground.
    Do you wish to rise? he asked…
  • Poem
    By Anastasia Taylor-Lind
    It’s 9/11 the first time you stay.
    In the morning you bring Taliban poems back to bed.
    I drink cardamom…
  • Poem
    By Li-Young Lee
    I can hear in your voice
    you were born in one country
    and will die in another,  and where you live is where…
  • Poem
    By Timothy Donnelly
    And though we had fed long and well at the table
      the talk always turned to whether to go on
    regardless…
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