Snowfall
by Sara Teasdale“She can’t be unhappy,” you said, “The smiles are like stars in her eyes, And her laughter is thistledown Around her low replies. Is she unhappy?” you said.... Read more Original art by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
Selected Poems
“You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick. You’re back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps . . . so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in.” —Dylan Thomas
Featured Poems
- Boland, Sally – October Morning Rain
- Burchell, Joan Adams – Flowers Talk
- Costello-Forshey, Cheryl – Daddy’s Day
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Friendship
- Gilbert, Sandra M. – How We Didn’t Tell Her
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth – The Psalm of Life
- McAlister, Neil Harding – Be Mindful of the Moment
- Obama, Barack – Underground
- Rice, Helen Steiner – Help Yourself to Happiness
- Sadler, Sharamain – Causatum
- Sandburg, Carl – Poppies
- Suárez, Virgil – Poem for My Father
- Teasdale, Sara – Barter
- Teasdale, Sara – Dooryard Roses
- Teasdale, Sara – Snowfall
- Wintle, Walter – The Man Who Thinks He Can
Pearls of Wisdom
A poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. —Abraham Moslow A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. —W. H. Auden Love is the poetry of the senses. —Honoré de Balzac
Ancient Chinese Poem
Behold the Glow of the Moon
by Han Chan, as translated by Red Pine Behold the glow of the moon
illumine the world’s four quarters
perfect light in perfect space
a radiance that purifies
people say it waxes and wanes
but I don’t see it fade
just like a magic pearl
it shines both night and day
Copyright © 2000 Bill Porter
From The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
