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  • 28۝ National Poetry Month ۝28

    ۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝MushroomsBy Sylvia Plath~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Overnight, veryWhitely, discreetly,Very quietlyOur toes, our nosesTake hold on the loam,Acquire the air.Nobody sees us,Stops us, betrays us;The small grains make room.Soft fists insist onHeaving the needles,The leafy bedding,Even the paving.Our hammers, our rams,Earless and ...
    Posted to Poems by Galatea on April 28, 2008

  • 21۝ National Poetry Month ۝21

    ۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝ By Candlelight By Sylvia Plath ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This is winter, this is night, small love --A sort of black horsehair,A rough, dumb country stuffSteeled with the sheenOf what green stars can make it to our gate.I hold you on my arm.It is very late.The dull bells tongue the hour.The mirror floats us at one candle power.This ...
    Posted to Poems by Galatea on April 21, 2008

  • 5۝ National Poetry Month ۝5

    ۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝~۝ChildBy Sylvia Plath~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.I want to fill it with color and ducks,The zoo of the newWhose name you meditate --April snowdrop, Indian pipe,LittleStalk without wrinkle,Pool in which imagesShould be grand and classicalNot this troublousWringing of hands, this darkCeiling ...
    Posted to Poems by Galatea on April 5, 2008

  • ۩ WORDS ۩

    WordsBy Sylvia Plath* * * * * * * Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off from the center like horses. The sap Wells like tears, like the Water striving To re-establish its mirror Over the rock That drops and turns, A white skull, Eaten by weedy greens. Years later I Encounter them on the road--- Words dry and ...
    Posted to Poems by Galatea on August 13, 2007