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Themes: May 2012
Sneaking some time to post this! Themes for this month were taken from a selection of poetry; a complete list of sources will go up in a few days, but in the meantime, ask if you want to know.
1. this was once a love poem
2. wringing stars out of zero
3. ankles, elbows, eyes, and thighs
4. the return to love with perspective
5. your hour is a stone
6. my moment is a flower
7. days of mint and rain
8. August, too sunstruck for lessons
9. all beyond saving by children
10. the great open dome
11. one heartbite after another
12. do not choose sides yet
13. inconvenient but final
14. and i'm afraid it's you
15. the almanac of last things
16. a little less with every dawn
17. we were water under the bridge
18. the boundless thing, Romance
19. running away to a language no longer spoken
20. a coat that will fit anyone
21. locked together & pushing
22. sonnet on the ribs of laughter
23. a flame in two cupped hands
24. her skin comes, too
25. not a rosebud, but a pot
26. it does not want to stroke
27. sleep, she will not linger
28. astronomers, thieves, lovers
29. the perfect outline of a man
30. wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful
31. this fishing in the air
SOURCES
1 - jane hirshfield, "This Was Once a Love Poem"
2 - margaret atwood, "Five Lines"
3 - jay leeming, "Red Autumn Bells"
4 - jack gilbert, "And She Waiting"
5 & 6 - langston hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
7 - john burnside, "De Partout Jusqu'a Vous"
8 - linda pastan, "The Almanac of Last Things"
9 - pastan, "Ethics"
10 - ted kooser, "After Years"
11 - atwood, "Five Lines"
12 - richard siken, "You Are Jeff"
13 - atwood, She Considers Evading Him
14 - wendy cope, "Valentine"
15 - pastan, "Almanac"
16 - burnside, "Prayer"
17 - andrea cohen, "English as a Second Language"
18 - april bernard, "Limit"
19 - burnside, "De Partout Jusqu'a Vous"
20 - pastan, "Ars Poetica"
21 - nick flynn, "Worthless"
22 - jennifer michael hecht, "Sonnet on the Ribs of Laughter"
23 - atwood, "Variations on the Word Sleep"
24 - lola haskins, "Love"
25 - a.e. stallings, "Consolation for Tamar"
26 - atwood, "Untitled"
27 - a.e. stallings, "Lullaby for an Insomniac"
28 - jay leeming, "The Light Above Cities"
29 - lorna crozier, "Last Testaments"
30 - mary oliver, "A Bitterness"
31 - linda gregg, "We Manage Most When We Manage Small"
1. this was once a love poem
2. wringing stars out of zero
3. ankles, elbows, eyes, and thighs
4. the return to love with perspective
5. your hour is a stone
6. my moment is a flower
7. days of mint and rain
8. August, too sunstruck for lessons
9. all beyond saving by children
10. the great open dome
11. one heartbite after another
12. do not choose sides yet
13. inconvenient but final
14. and i'm afraid it's you
15. the almanac of last things
16. a little less with every dawn
17. we were water under the bridge
18. the boundless thing, Romance
19. running away to a language no longer spoken
20. a coat that will fit anyone
21. locked together & pushing
22. sonnet on the ribs of laughter
23. a flame in two cupped hands
24. her skin comes, too
25. not a rosebud, but a pot
26. it does not want to stroke
27. sleep, she will not linger
28. astronomers, thieves, lovers
29. the perfect outline of a man
30. wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful
31. this fishing in the air
SOURCES
1 - jane hirshfield, "This Was Once a Love Poem"
2 - margaret atwood, "Five Lines"
3 - jay leeming, "Red Autumn Bells"
4 - jack gilbert, "And She Waiting"
5 & 6 - langston hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
7 - john burnside, "De Partout Jusqu'a Vous"
8 - linda pastan, "The Almanac of Last Things"
9 - pastan, "Ethics"
10 - ted kooser, "After Years"
11 - atwood, "Five Lines"
12 - richard siken, "You Are Jeff"
13 - atwood, She Considers Evading Him
14 - wendy cope, "Valentine"
15 - pastan, "Almanac"
16 - burnside, "Prayer"
17 - andrea cohen, "English as a Second Language"
18 - april bernard, "Limit"
19 - burnside, "De Partout Jusqu'a Vous"
20 - pastan, "Ars Poetica"
21 - nick flynn, "Worthless"
22 - jennifer michael hecht, "Sonnet on the Ribs of Laughter"
23 - atwood, "Variations on the Word Sleep"
24 - lola haskins, "Love"
25 - a.e. stallings, "Consolation for Tamar"
26 - atwood, "Untitled"
27 - a.e. stallings, "Lullaby for an Insomniac"
28 - jay leeming, "The Light Above Cities"
29 - lorna crozier, "Last Testaments"
30 - mary oliver, "A Bitterness"
31 - linda gregg, "We Manage Most When We Manage Small"