The title is taken from a Rafael Alberti poem of the same name. Alberti’s poem, written in 1937, is marked with the same destruction and scars of war, but it is also a poem of resistance and hope, where the future is bright, or as the title of the second volume says, “the coun...
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When my seventeen-year-old daughter Mary died by intentional overdose in 1995, I agonized similarly: I wished I’d known her; I wished I’d heard and helped her out, undone whatever damage had been done to her. But unlike King, I was no passerby: Ihadknown the person who died by ...
I lost a dear friend Monday night. Her doctor put her on new chemo meds, and the new meds while more aggressive on her cancer, were also extremely aggressive on her, and she stopped taking them. I never met Janie close enough for hugs, but she was one of the poet/writers who welcome...
Below is his poem, and my poor attempt at an answer to the last line he wrote. David # # # This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey’s Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the jug In the Land of the Crimson Star; That Soviet guy with the single eye, And the face...
… And later on and further down the road, when I told a girl it was my momma’s name and when she died, I took as my own and that got me a whole lot of everything. … And the truth. That it was the Elastic Girl who called me Sallie one night when we were in her trailer...
poem Musée des Beaux Arts which he wrote in after going into a Belgian art gallery about… It’s this, the one that starts off, “About suffering, they were never wrong, the old masters. How well they understood its human position, how it takes place while someone else is ea...
Even for those of us who are native English speakers, we're all working to improve how we use our language. To make progress, you have to practice, and at The Write Practice, believe it or not, we're really into practice! Creative writing prompts are easy, fun ways to practice. 2....
Ballad Of Birmingham Mexicans Begin Jogg Poem Analysis Her mother had to go from a state of peace to mourning. All she was left with was her daughter’s precious shoe, along with the memory of her which she loved so much. “O, here’s the shoe my baby wore, but baby, where are yo...
This is an interesting poem by Yao Lu that refers to competitive commercial space travel but has deeper meaning. It is a difficult poem to translate and I added some footnotes for clarification. I hope that you will enjoy it. The distant moon up there, behind the clouds (if you look care...