Tag: poem
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #4: with Walt Whitman
That’s right, Walt Whitman. He may not be as well-known for his love poems as others, and his critics might say he was too busy loving himself, but to that I counter that he loved himself no less than others, and no more. I just started going back to studying the “Calamus” section of Leaves…
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #3: Readings by Ygor Raduy
For today’s edition of Love Poems You Wish You Had Written we have as a guest reader, Ygor Raduy who will be reading selections from both E. E. Cummings and Rainer Maria Rilke. Some days I simply cannot help but be grateful that our god in her infinite wisdom inspired Al Gore to create the…
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Love Poems We Wish We had Written, with Suzie Grogan
Originally posted on No more wriggling out of writing ……: I do have to mention, as I begin this post, that I was inspired by the wonderful David J Bauman over at The Dad Poet. We both love poetry and he has a wonderful reading voice – I was lucky enough to have him read…
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River Ice and William Stafford
Oh the weather outside is . . . actually it’s been rather freakish. We’ve gone from single digits three days ago to 60 degrees (Fahrenheit) yesterday to blustery wind and snow squalls today. Pennsylvania is one of those places in which they say, “If you don’t like the weather here, wait a minute.” Unless of…
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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #1: with Wendy Cope
I haven’t posted anything recently about Poetry Under the Paintings, and since I just sent out the announcement for the Valentine’s edition to my local Facebook poets and poetry lovers, I thought I’d pass along to you the video I included for them. It’s one that I recorded on YouTube three years ago, but had…
