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MY FAVOURITE POEMS BY OTHER POETS
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MAN IN STREAM
You stand in the brook, mud smearing
your forearms, a bloodied mosquito on your brow,
your yellow T-shirt dampened to your chest
as the current flees between your legs,
amber, verdigris, unraveling
today's story, last night's travail . . .
You stare at the father beaver, eye to eye,
but he out-stares you—you who trespass in his world,
who have, however unwilling, yanked out his fort,
stick by tooth-gnarled, mud-clobbered stick,
though you whistle vespers to the wood thrush
and trace flame-flicker in the grain of yellow birch.
Death outpaces us. Upended roots
of fallen trees still cling to moss-furred granite.
Lichen smolders on wood-rot, fungus trails in wisps.
I wanted a day with cracks, to let the Godlight in.
The forest is always a nocturne, but it gleams,
the birch tree tosses its change from palm to palm,
and we who unmake are ourselves unmade
if we know, if only we know
how to give ourselves in this untendered light.
( (By Rosanna Warren).
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| 1 | DAY LILIES | 217 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 2 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE | 209 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 3 | SONNET 21 | 207 | 2011/05/17 | 12 years ago | |
| 4 | A LANE OF YELLOW LED THE EYE | 546 | 2011/07/02 | 12 years ago | |
| 5 | ROBIN HOOD. TO A FRIEND. | 403 | 2011/08/03 | 12 years ago | |
| 6 | LONDON | 298 | 2012/08/05 | 11 years ago | |
| 7 | AH! SUNFLOWER | 213 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 8 | THE MAN OF LIFE UPRIGHT | 288 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 9 | ORPHEUS, WITH HIS LUTE MADE TREES | 213 | 2011/05/17 | 12 years ago | |
| 10 | FOR ONCE, THEN SOMETHING | 502 | 2011/07/03 | 12 years ago | |
| 11 | A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER | 409 | 2011/08/03 | 12 years ago | |
| 12 | WHEN TO THE SESSIONS OF SWEET SILENT THOUGHT (SHAKESPEAR'S SONNET NO. 30) | 235 | 2012/11/09 | 11 years ago | |
| 13 | LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI | 236 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 14 | THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES | 233 | 2011/05/14 | 13 years ago | |
| 15 | HOW THE MIND WORKS STILL TO BE SURE | 228 | 2011/05/20 | 12 years ago | |
| 16 | YOUTH AND AGE | 598 | 2011/07/06 | 12 years ago | |
| 17 | LIFE IN A LOVE | 391 | 2011/08/03 | 12 years ago | |
| 18 | ODE ON SOLITUDE | 210 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 19 | BREAK, BREAK, BREAK | 245 | 2011/05/15 | 13 years ago | |
| 20 | THE GARDEN OF RAPTURE ITSELF* | 242 | 2011/05/22 | 12 years ago | |
| 21 | TINTERN ABBEY | 301 | 2011/07/16 | 12 years ago | |
| 22 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE | 422 | 2011/08/03 | 12 years ago | |
| 23 | ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD | 237 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 24 | LEISURE | 240 | 2011/05/15 | 13 years ago | |
| 25 | ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE by JOHN KEATS | 189 | 2011/06/18 | 12 years ago | |
| 26 | AN ODE TO ERNESTO SANTANA | 452 | 2011/07/21 | 12 years ago | |
| 27 | ODE ON A GRECIAN URN | 286 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 28 | UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE | 200 | 2011/05/15 | 13 years ago | |
| 29 | ARIEL'S SONG | 296 | 2011/07/23 | 12 years ago | |
| 30 | SONNET NO. 76 BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | 212 | 2011/09/22 | 12 years ago | |
| 31 | I AM THE ONLY BEING | 215 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 32 | THE DESERTED VILLAGE | 285 | 2011/05/15 | 13 years ago | |
| 33 | ABOU BEN ADHEM | 199 | 2011/06/22 | 12 years ago | |
| 34 | GHOST HOUSE | 161 | 2012/06/23 | 11 years ago | |
| 35 | A NATION'S STRENGTH | 223 | 2011/05/12 | 13 years ago | |
| 36 | THE ECHOING GREEN | 197 | 2011/05/15 | 13 years ago | |
| 37 | BED IN SUMMER | 267 | 2011/06/25 | 12 years ago | |
| 38 | ODE TO AUTUMN | 424 | 2011/08/03 | 12 years ago | |
| 39 | SEEING WITH THE EYES OF THE HEART | 239 | 2012/06/25 | 11 years ago | |
| 40 | YOUR BREATH WAS SHED | 1 | 277 | 2011/08/28 | 12 years ago |
| 41 | ANNABEL LEE | 1 | 378 | 2011/06/22 | 12 years ago |
| 42 | THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK | 2 | 401 | 2011/07/28 | 12 years ago |