Listen

SpillwordsMay 19, 2019

Listen a poem by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky   Listen, if stars are lit it means - there is someone who needs it. It means - someone wants them...

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To My Mother

SpillwordsMay 12, 2019

To My Mother a poem by Edgar Allan Poe   Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burni...

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The Other

SpillwordsMay 5, 2019

The Other a poem by Rosario Castellanos   Why say the names of gods, stars, spray from an invisible ocean or pollen from the farthest gardens? If lif...

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Between Going and Staying The Day Wavers

SpillwordsApril 28, 2019

Between Going and Staying The Day Wavers a poem by Octavio Paz   Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circ...

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Easter Wings

SpillwordsApril 21, 2019

Easter Wings a poem by George Herbert   Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till ...

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Piano

SpillwordsApril 14, 2019

Piano a poem by D.H. Lawrence   Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting unde...

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A Certain Lady

SpillwordsApril 7, 2019

A Certain Lady a poem by Dorothy Parker   Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head, And drink your rushing words with eager lips, And paint my mouth ...

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Time Is

SpillwordsMarch 31, 2019

Time Is a poem by Henry van Dyke   Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for t...

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Riposte

SpillwordsMarch 24, 2019

Riposte a poem by William Carlos Williams   Love is like water or the air my townspeople; it cleanses, and dissipates evil gases. It is like poetry t...

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Oily Weather

SpillwordsFebruary 24, 2019

Oily Weather a poem by Ernest Hemingway   The sea desires deep hulls— It swells and rolls. The screw churns a throb— Driving, throbbing, progressin...

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Ravenna

SpillwordsFebruary 17, 2019

Ravenna a poem by Oscar Wilde   I. A year ago I breathed the Italian air,-- And yet, methinks this northern Spring is fair,- These fields made go...

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Wishes

SpillwordsFebruary 10, 2019

Wishes a poem by Dora Sigerson Shorter   I wish we could live as the flowers live, To breathe and to bloom in the summer and sun; To slumber an...

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Transfiguration

SpillwordsFebruary 3, 2019

Transfiguration a poem by Louisa May Alcott   Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life's gold can so refine, And by thy art divine Change m...

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The Last Ride Together

SpillwordsJanuary 27, 2019

The Last Ride Together a poem by Robert Browning   I SAID—Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my lov...

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