Schwarze Bohnen /Black Beans : : German Poem By Sarah Kirsch (1935 – 2013), : : Translated in to English, in the year 2014 By Prof. Anne Stokes , Ph. D. ( German Literature ) , Ohio State University. : : * ©️ Carcanet Press/From theguardian.com- Educational Purposes only. : : : : : :Continue reading “Black Beans ( Schwarze Bohnen ) : Sarah Kirsch ( German ) : Anne Stokes ( English Translation ) : : Afternoon Poems : :”
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At the Justice Department November 15, 1969 : Denise Levertov : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :
At the Justice Department November 15, 1969 BY DENISE LEVERTOVBrown gas-fog, whitebeneath the street lamps.Cut off on three sides, all space filledwith our bodies. Bodies that stumblein brown airlessness, whitenedin light, a mildew glare, that stumblehand in hand, blinded, retching.Wanting it, wantingto be here, the body believing it’sdying in its nausea, my headclear in itsContinue reading “At the Justice Department November 15, 1969 : Denise Levertov : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :”
September 1913 : W B Yeats : : September Poems : : Months Poems : :
September 1913BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat need you, being come to sense,But fumble in a greasy tillAnd add the halfpence to the penceAnd prayer to shivering prayer, untilYou have dried the marrow from the bone;For men were born to pray and save:Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,It’s with O’Leary in the grave. Yet they were of aContinue reading “September 1913 : W B Yeats : : September Poems : : Months Poems : :”
July in Washington : Robert Lowell : : July Poems : : Months Poems : :
July in WashingtonBY ROBERT LOWELLThe stiff spokes of this wheel touch the sore spots of the earth. On the Potomac, swan-white power launches keep breasting the sulphurous wave. Otters slide and dive and slick back their hair,raccoons clean their meat in the creek. On the circles, green statues ride like South Americanliberators above the breedingContinue reading “July in Washington : Robert Lowell : : July Poems : : Months Poems : :”