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....
Poems
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...
If you are not rain, my love | A poem by Mahmoud Darwish, 2002
Samia Halaby, Untitled (from the Dome of the Rock series), 1981 If you are not rain, my loveBe treeSated with...
Prayer | A poem by Fernando Pessoa, 1913
Jack Tworkov, Idling, 1969 Our lady of Useless Tears,Thine is my heart's best shrine.I am sick with the gorging years,I...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | A poem by Wallace Stevens, 1917
Derrick Greaves, Black Bird / Red Beak, 2008 IAmong twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the eye of the blackbird....
The River | A poem by Lewis MacAdams, 2007
Forman Hanna, Canyon Nymph, 1920 I like the way youbent over naked, fleshcafé au lait in the moonlightthrough the bay...