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Poetry Corner

04/16/17: The opening passage of Dante’s Divine Comedy

April 16, 2017 / admin / Poetry Corner, Uncategorized

Here is the opening passage of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, as translated by Robert Durling:   In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to say what that wood was, so savage […]

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04/09/17: “Doors” (Sandburg)

April 9, 2017 / admin / Poetry Corner, Uncategorized

Doors An open door says, “Come in.” A shut door says, “Who are you?” Shadows and ghosts go through shut doors. If a door is shut and you want it shut, why open it? If a door is open and you want it open, why shut it? Doors forget but only doors know what it […]

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04/02/17: “Each Stone” (Ignatow)

April 2, 2017 / admin / Poetry Corner

  Each Stone                           Each stone its shape each shape its weight each weight its value in my garden as I dig them up for Spring planting, and I say, lifting one at a time, There is a joy here in being able […]

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3/26/17: “I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose” (Dickinson)

March 26, 2017 / admin / Poetry Corner

I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose   I’ll tell you how the sun rose,– A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!” But how he set, I […]

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