Poetry
225. come back one day and blow through me
Cate Kennedy is a novelist and poet with three poetry collections
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224. Words spoken by droplets and leaves
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938) was an Italian poet, playwright, journalist, and politician, and ser...
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223. There are a thousand bars to see
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was an Austrian poet and novelist born in Prague.
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222. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
“Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” is a poem by William Butler Yeats.
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221. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
Visual media often enhance the meaning of a poem in ways we could never fully understand by reading...
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220. Those that I fight, I do not hate
The war is ongoing – two major ones and several smaller ones.
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219. The movie ended without the final kiss
It is a prayer—a prayer in which he sees a woman exploited by capitalism in this life, and liberated...
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218. my love, if you die and I don’t die
Enjoy these moments and explore that fairy tale world, the final sanctuary for lovers.
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217. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead
James Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston,
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216. all my long life, I have remembered them
Today, I received a haunting poem by Emily Vargas-Baron in the mail.
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215. Life’s a riddle – give it up
Persian lyric poet Hafiz (1310-1390) is one of the most renowned poets of Persian literature.
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214. A moment of happiness
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, scholar of Islam, and Sufi mystic.
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