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reading poetry

from Private Poem to Norman Macleod - by W. S. Graham

{ Poem }

The spaces in the poem are yours.They are the place where youCan enter as yourself aloneAnd think anything in.

slow - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

          slow           down           long           enough           to           read           these           words

Poetry Forum - by Helena Nelson

{ Poem }

What is poetry for? (Maitreyabhandu)
/
/ It’s for weddings
/ and funerals
/ and reading on the train
/ and for taking a person out of herself
/ and bringing…

Enquiry Desk - by Andy Jackson

{ Poem }

Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…

Poem for Myself on My Fiftieth Birthday - by Tom Buchan

{ Poem }

Never written a poem for yourself
/ have you, you daft old bugger? Well
/ here goes.
/
/ …

Random - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

for Robyn Marsack
/
/ Go take a book down from the shelf and open it.
/ Listen, this isn’t ‘book’ but box,
/ box full…

The Scottish Poetry Library - by Aonghas MacNeacail

{ Poem }

so much light here –
sun’s rhythm in each wall…
flow of thoughts on the shelves,
radiant lamp of the books

A delivery of dung - by Thomas Lux

{ Poem }

No piece of art is perfect. / All it has to do is stay around / for two hundred, or…

Tools of the Trade - by Màrtainn Mac an t-Saoir
Martin MacIntyre

{ Poem }

New doctors will be empowered by poems
/ in the pockets of their metaphorical white coats.
/ There at the ready:
/ on early, sweaty,…

I Sve Je Najednom Tu - by Aleksandar Bečanović

{ Poem }

Donijeti odluku znači zatvoriti knjigu koja
/ je ponešena na put. U sjedištima aviona i
/ vozova, čovjek se mora, ohrabren tišinom,
/ okrenuti sebi:…

Poetry and I - by Mbarka Mint Al-Barra

{ Poem }

The sin is that I wasn’t a stone
/ And the troubles of the world make me…

Soldier II - by Andrew F. Giles

{ Poem }

Brooke, R., 1914 & Other Poems (Complete Press,
/ 28th impression, 1920). Restrained, a story of memory,
/ navy-bound with a firmament of stains,…

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