Category Archives: Poetry

In which Bookworm attempts to interpret a poem

Y’all seemed to enjoy my “liveblogging” of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, so here’s something similar.

Poetry Thursday #5 and #6

Where does the time go? I missed last week so I thought I’d make it up with two this time. And as promised, I’m going to try out Marianne Moore on y’all.

Poetry Thursday #4

I’ve been struggling over the collected poems of Marianne Moore. Is it just me? Or is a six-line poem supposed to take an hour or longer to understand?

Poetry Thursday #3

Here’s another one from Carl Sandburg (I promise someone else next week). I’m sharing this one in order to cheer myself up after a night where Daniel woke me up four? five?

Poetry Thursday #2

We don’t exactly have a house full of poetry here. In fact, what we’ve got here is slim pickin’s.

Poetry Thursday #1

Brought to mind after the morning spent with Lena: we cleaned her room top-to-bottom, reminiscing over stuff from long ago, particularly remembering when she was four and she and I, just the two of us, got on a plane and flew to California for my cousin’s wedding.

Resolved.

Last year I don’t believe I went public with any of my New Year’s resolutions — oh, wait a second, quick search through my archives reveals that yes, I did.