Song of the Open Road – 5 | Walt Whitman, 1856
Dorothea Lange. Road on the Great Plains. 1941 From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines,Going...
Poems
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...
The Sundew | A Poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909
Henry Scott Tuke, August Blue, 1893-4 A Little marsh-plant, yellow green,And pricked at lip with tender red.Tread close, and either...
Al Aaraaf | A poem by Edgar Allan Poe, 1829
Edvard Munch, Eye in Eye, 1894 "Sound loves to revel in a summer night:Witness the murmur of the gray twilightThat...
Summer Garden | A poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1959
Leonor Fini, The Passenger, 1964 I want to visit the rosesIn that lonelyPark where the statues remember me youngAnd I...
They want us to be afraid | A poem by Kamand Kojouri, 2017
Snakes and Ladders, board game They want us to be afraid.They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes,to...
Words | A poem by Anne Sexton, 1975
Julia Trigg Be careful of words,even the miraculous ones.For the miraculous we do our best,sometimes they swarm like insectsand leave...