All about: love

Reading: In The Summer by Nizar Qabbani
Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism (Wikipedia). I read a simple love poem, translated by B. Frangieh And C. Brown, that sounds unmistakenly Arabic: In the summer In the summer I stretch out on the ...
All is mathematics
The wind is mathematics, and your tear ducts me insisting we continue, the curvature of your smile the rock you sat down on, the ocean that sighed in your stead the proof that life is a theorem, which can never be proven to be one
Reading: Jane by Howard Moss
American poet, dramatist and critic Howard Moss (1922-1987) won the National Book Award in 1972 for his selected poetry. He was the poetry editor of the New Yorker for almost forty years and a great discoverer of poets. Moss also wrote a funny illustrated book of writer's parodies called 'instant lives'. I read 'Jane', a poem ...
Reading: To You by Kenneth Koch
New York School poet Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) was called "the funniest serious poet we have". His engaged poetry is often funny, but Koch is serious about his craft. He also wrote short satirical plays and worked very successfully with children. I read a love poem, "To You". To You I love you as a sheriff searches for ...
Two Strangers
How much peace is in an evening walk of two near strangers at the bay when they hold hands and gently talk even if their peace - has gone away How much truth lies there, for a little while when of human needs the most divine between a thoughtful nod and then a smile is ...
Reading: Adultery at forty by Donald Hall
Donald Hall (b. 1928) is another celebrated American poet. Hall “has lived deeply within the New England ethos of plain living and high thinking, and he has done so with a sense of humor and eros.” He had lost his wife, Jane Kenyon to leukemia in 1994, with whom he lived a happy and harmonious poet's ...
Reading: November by Jane Shore
Jane Shore (b. 1947) is an American poet with a unique voice, often expressing her Jewish heritage. Don't confuse her with a love of King Edward IV :) I found a funny poem entitled 'November': November My north-exposed begonia the first frost got to, spunky in its porcelain pot splays out like spokes of an ...
We say to 'rise' to fame and to 'fall' in love. Correction. We fall in fame and we rise to love.
To my child
today I stage a rebirth of my desire to see the world through your eyes if you see the flowers stare at you from their blushing fields you are like a sun to them so I invited myself to your dream and do you know mine about the thankfulness of a well, the divine right ...