Category Archives: Other peoples words

Palabras/Words: Poems in Spanish Translated to English #7

Posted on April 14, 2020 by randomyriad

Another Dream 1919 A swallow goes flying far away— Dew blooms in my dream And my tired heart spins like a carousel where Death’s children ride I want to tie up time in these trees with a rope of black … Continue reading →

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Paradise is Around Us Always: A Poem in 2 Parts

Posted on April 2, 2020 by randomyriad

 

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April Poems 2020 #1: Loss and Leaving

Posted on April 1, 2020 by randomyriad

TODAY, ANOTHER UNIVERSE by Jane Hirshfield The arborist has determined: senescence      beetles      canker quickened by drought but in any case not prunable   not treatable   not to be propped. And so. The branch from which the sharp-shinned hawks and their mate-cries. The trunk where the … Continue reading →

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Maybe We Should Have Another Focus?

Posted on March 29, 2020 by randomyriad

There were none of those thousand sources of irritation that the ingenuity of civilized man has created to mar his own felicity. There were no foreclosures of mortgages, no protested notes, no bills payable, no debts of honour in Typee; … Continue reading →

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Together, We Make the World We Live In

Posted on March 23, 2020 by randomyriad

An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can … Continue reading →

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