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Poetry

Published on Apr 15, 2016

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"Your world is as big as you make it"

*Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson

Photo by Werner Kunz

"A new landscape rises from the wave"

*Atlantide by Max Jacob

"My heart is like a singing bird"

*A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

Photo by @Doug88888

"For the young earth still innocent from scars"

*The Flowers by Stéphane Mallarmé

"The field is filled with what we see without sleep"

*What is the field? By Leila Wilson

Photo by marfis75

"And the ocean comes in long shimmering lines under the fleet from last night"
*September by Joanne Kyger

Photo by ecstaticist

"The fair rolled in surprisingly intact, like a plate unbreakable because it has been dropped and glues so many times"
*The Fair by Joshua Mehigan

Photo by kevin dooley

"The stars did entertain my sense and all the works of God, so bright and pure"
*Wonder by Thomas Traherne

Photo by Chiarissima

"the Christmas twigs crisper and needles rattle along the window ledge"
*New Year's Poem by Margret Avison

"Let sportive children well beware while sprightly frisking o'er the green"
*On Summer by George Moses Horton

Photo by wonker

"There's just no accounting for happiness or the way it turns up like a prodigal"
*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by VinothChandar

"Who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away"
*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by Tc Morgan

"And how can you not forgive?"

*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by swanksalot

"No, happiness is the uncle you never knew about"

*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by Will Montague

"Who's flies a single engine plane onto the grassy landing strip"

*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

"Until he finds you asleep kid afternoon as you so often are during the unmerciful hours of your despair"

*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by wili_hybrid

"To the child whose mother has passed out from drink"

*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by djwtwo

"It even comes to the Boulder in the perpetual shade of pine barrens"

*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by VinothChandar

"To rain falling on the open sea"

*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by kevin dooley

"To the wineglass weary of holding wine"

*Happiness by Jane Kenyon

Photo by chispita_666