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SOMETIMES
Charley's Poetry Corner: Mostly, I rejoice in fond memories from the past, but sometimes...All of you who have these same moments, know you are not…
WINTER RENEWAL
Charley's Poetry Corner takes a snowy vacation...
PSALM 137
Version by the King James Translators. Charley’s Poetry Corner seldom waxes religious, but this lamentation seems particularly germane right now.
SAGA
Charley's Poetry Corner presents Andrei Voznesensky (translated by William Jay Smith and Vera Dunham). Is he addressing a lover or his beloved Russia?
From LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL
Charley's Poetry Corner brings you a passage that is not actually poetry. But Thomas Wolfe wrote this in the novel by the above title and it's as poetic…
LINES COMPOSED IN ALGEBRAIC SPEEDOMETER FOR A PARTY IN BOZEMAN, MONTANA
Also in Technicolor and the key of E-flat
PRAYER FOR MESSIAH
The late Leonard Cohen is featured on Charley’s Poetry Corner. His songs (remember "Suzanne"?) are lyrical, moving, and occasionally weird.
WAS A MAN
By Philip Booth, in Charley's Poetry Corner
HIAWATHA PARODY
Charley's Poetry Corner brings you an entry by the prolific poet Anonymous, based on the rhythms of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha…
WITH RUE MY HEART IS LADEN
Sad song by A.E.Housman. The dark side of living long, I find, is the swelling ranks of those I've loved and lost...
PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE
Edna St. Vincent Millay in Charley's Poetry Corner
FEBRUARY
Charley's Poetry Corner brings you Hal Borland, who writes often of winter and wilderness...
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