On Children | A poem by Kahlil Gibran, 1923
Agustí Sousa, Family, 2016 Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.They...
Poems
Signature Song | A poem by Bill Berkson, 2009
Vocalist Lee Wiley, accompanied by her husband, pianist Jess Stacy, with Eddie Condon on guitar, Sid Weiss on bass and...
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear | A poem by Mosab Abu Toha, 2021
Isamu Noguchi, Paris Abstraction, 1928 For Alicia M. Quesnel, MD i When you open my ear, touch itgently.My mother’s voice...
The Botticellian Trees | A poem by William Carlos Williams, 1930
Sandro Botticelli, La historia de Nastagio degli Onesti, second episode, 1483 (detail) The alphabet ofthe trees is fading in thesong...
Dream Dust | A poem by Langston Hughes, 1901-1967
Georges Seurat, Seated Woman with a Parasol, 1884-85 Gather out of star-dustEarth-dust,Cloud-dust,And splinters of hail,One handful of dream-dustNot for sale....
The Bird Thrice with Itself | A poem by Hans Arp, 1920
Jean Arp, Variables Bild , 1964 the streams buck like rams in a tentwhips crack and from the hills come...
In the Desert | A poem by Stephen Crane, 1895
anon In the desertI saw a creature, naked, bestial,Who, squatting upon the ground,Held his heart in his hands,And ate of...
It’s Raining | A poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1916
Guillaume Apollinaire, Il Pleut, Calligrammes, 1916 its raining womens voices as if they were dead even in memoryits raining you...
Happiness | A poem by Raymond Carver, 1938-1988
Edward Mitchell Bannister, Newspaper Boy, 1869 So early it’s still almost dark out.I’m near the window with coffee,and the usual...
Song of the Open Road (5) | Walt Whitman, 1856
Dorothea Lange. Road on the Great Plains. 1941 5From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines,Going...