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...
Poems
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...
The Future | A poem by Julio Cortázar, 1984
anon And I know full well you won’t be there.You won’t be in the street, in the hum that buzzesfrom...
Mother, Summer, I | A poem by Philip Larkin, 1953
Philip with his mother Eva in the Duke’s Head Hotel, King’s LynnJuly 1971 (The estate of Philip Larkin) My mother, who...
Don’t Let That Horse | A poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958
Marc Chagall, Equestrienne, 1931 Don’t let that horseeat that violincried Chagall’s mother But hekept right onpainting And became famous And...
Lied (Song) | A poem by George Grosz, 1919
George Grosz, Bourgeois world, 1918 We contain all the passionsand all the vicesand all the suns and stars,chasms and heights,trees,...
Black Stone Lying On A White Stone | A poem by César Vallejo, 1892-1938
César Vallejo, 1892-1938 I will die in Paris, on a rainy day,on some day I can already remember.I will...
The Swamp | A poem by Bertolt Brecht, 1947
Gustav Klimt, The Swamp 1900 I beheld many friends,And the friend I held the most,Helplessly sink into the swampI pass...
You Are Tired (I Think) | A poem by e.e. cummings, 1925
Edward Steichen, Cheruit Gown (Marion Morehouse, Mrs. e.e. cummings), 1927 You are tired,(I think)Of the always puzzle of living and...