meeting

WHEN WE MET from kendrive ^Pro 258 days old

We met upon nearby hill-tops of our lives And shook the dust from us, revealing flame-laced clothes And eyeing each other in the same moment. You curved ...

MEETING from kendrive ^Pro 310 days old

Cavafy wrote several 'encounter' poems. Here is one of them: ON THE STAIRS As I was going down those ill-famed stairs you were coming through ...

THE BROWNINGS (2) from kendrive ^Pro 527 days old

[ ... ] poems. MEETING AT NIGHT The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that ...

FOR THE SAKE OF AULD LANG SYNE from kendrive ^Pro 636 days old

Today, another poem by the contemporary English poet, James Fenton, who was born in Durham in 1949. I first posted it here in November 2006. What ...

SECRET from kendrive ^Pro 638 days old

I will leave you to make what you will of this Walt Whitman poem, as it is capable of several interpretations. It was written in 1900 and was included ...

ALMOST from kendrive ^Pro 900 days old

MEETING Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell, Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive. Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak. Snakes, ...

COMING HOME from kendrive ^Pro 940 days old

[ ... ] FIRST MEETING When I first met you, I knew that I had come at last home. Home after wandering, Home after long-puzzled searching, Home after ...

NOT QUITE CONNECT from kendrive ^Pro 1225 days old

Today I continue Tessimond's theme of personal isolation - the unwillingness or inability of people to relate to others, or to themselves. MEETING Dogs ...