Invitation to Love

Poem Of The Day / January 16, 2026

Come when the nights are bright with stars
Or when the moon is mellow;
Come when the sun his golden bars
Drops on the hay-field yellow.
Come in the twilight soft and gray,
Come in the night or...Read More

Songs to Joannes, V

Poem Of The Day / January 15, 2026

Midnight empties the street
Of all but us
Three
I am undecided which way back
To the left a boy
-One wing has been washed in the rain
The other will never be clean any more-
...Read More

Heritage

Poem Of The Day / January 14, 2026

Now the dead past seems vividly alive,
And in this shining moment I can trace,
Down through the vista of the vanished years,
Your faun-like form, your fond elusive face.

And suddenly come ...Read More

from "After Dinner Was Over"

Poem Of The Day / January 13, 2026

I am enlightened, a man
says after dinner, and he doesn't
mean what you think
he means, he means he's a product
of the Enlightenment, he's talking
over his pain in the abyss
inside his ...Read More

from "[the old soiled carpet of the wish to be Anais]"

Poem Of The Day / January 12, 2026

writing on the bruised
body and seeing into the
bruise's locked backyard, not
psychoanalyzing the incursion
but appreciating its scissory
up and down

_________


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Civilian

Poem Of The Day / January 11, 2026

All was permitted you.
Rooted out as a misfire or
somebody's chance smudge
stabbed into a satisfied mind,

your face was feathered in spittle.
Go ahead, lick it off! Be an air-swiped ...Read More