Poems you don't have to be a poet to love
Radically accessible poemsPoems, literary excerpts, opinionated opinions.
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Curve
The poem Langston Hughes is best known for is “Those Winter Sundays.” But this one is also one of my favorites.
Final Curve
When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners...
Night Rain
As we head into these Northern California dry summer months, this poem is especially poignant:
Night Rain
Like the first gods
emerging from the surf
the dogwoods
shed droplets of light.
And the puddles—they're silver keys...
I know my friends will laugh
To start the second half of the year, this poem felt appropriate—and I think accessible…
I Know My Friends Will Laugh
but I think there’s so much spirit-stuff in this world that even
the dust kicked up on the trail above Tomales swi...
The Secret
One of my favorites by Denise Levertov:
The Secret
Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.
I who don’t know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me
(through a third person)
they...
Somehow Consoling
Feeling distraught over the public mess, I turned to this poem…
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
Now all the truth is out,
Be secret and take defeat
From any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honor bred,...
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Meryl Natchez took a leave of absence in her Junior year of college and has been rigorously home schooling herself ever since. Her fourth book, Catwalk, received an Indie Best Book 2020 Award from Kirkus Reviews.
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