The cicada’s dry monotony breaks .over me. The days are bright .and free, bright and free. Then why did I cry today .for an hour. —Jane Kenyon.

Have you read today’s #PoemADay: “Early Waking” by Léonie Adams?.

What do you want to know?.

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“Early Waking” appears in Léonie Adams’s poetry collection High Falcon and Other Poems (John Day Company, 1929). #AboutThisPoem.

Before bricks rosy with the dawn,.The hooves will sound beyond the light:.There are dark roads enough to go .To last us through the end. ––Léonie Adams.#PoemADay.

Anything can happen, the tallest towers. Be overturned, those in high places daunted,.Those overlooked regarded. —Seamus Heaney.

For on his shoulders they had put tattoos:. The group's name on the left, The Knights,.And on the right the slogan Born To Lose. —Thom Gunn, born #OTD in 1929.

Have you read today’s #PoemADay: “Goodbye” by Geoffrey Brock?.

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“I first came across Bella Akhmadulina’s 1960 poem ‘Прощание’ in Jean Valentine’s haunting 1966 adaptation, also called ‘Goodbye,’ which inspired me to look up other versions as well.”. —Geoffrey Brock.#AboutThisPoem.

Some things you don’t come back from. The body carries on. Of late.it even travels, basks in light. But knock and there’s no one home. ––Geoffrey Brock.#PoemADay.

I only knew. The stay of your secure firm dry embrace. —Thom Gunn, born #OTD in 1929.

Have you read today’s #PoemADay: “We Be Ludere” by Atsuro Riley?.

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“Once upon a time I lived surrounded by brothers—blood-born ones and others who were not.”. —Atsuro Riley.#AboutThisPoem.

Owl-absonant sensesurround of sweatshine and moonklieg insomnia both. Atsuro Riley .#PoemADay.

You turned in the light, your eyes.seeking your name. —Rita Dove, former Chancellor, born #OTD in 1952.

We wait for fingers to be bent.knuckle to knuckle,.the porch overrun.with rope and shotgun. but the hounds don’t show. —Jamaal May.

Have you read today’s #PoemADay: “Task” by Ari Banias?.

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