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Today’s Poem: The Bust
Living lips that kissed unseen
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Joseph Bottum
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Today’s Poem: The Ruined Maid
A little social satire from Thomas Hardy
Jan 21
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Joseph Bottum
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Today’s Poem: The Watchers
Women waiting for news that will break their hearts
Jan 20
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: The Bells
Oh, the tintinnabulation
Jan 19
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Joseph Bottum
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Today’s Poem: The Fly
Some blind hand
Jan 16
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: The Oracles
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair
Jan 15
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Joseph Bottum
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Today’s Poem: There Will Be Stars
Though the house we loved and the street we loved are lost
Jan 14
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: Nightwind
Night’s black depths in danger’s garb arrayed
Jan 13
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: Hurt Hawks
Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember
Jan 12
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Joseph Bottum
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Today’s Poem: Sonnet 97
What freezings have I felt
Jan 9
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: Fire-Flowers
Emily Pauline Johnson on the renewal that follows grief
Jan 8
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Sally Thomas
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Today’s Poem: To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut
A fish praised in verse
Jan 7
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Joseph Bottum
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Today’s Poem: Solitude
Concise expression of a common thought
Jan 6
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Joseph Bottum
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Today’s Poem: Incident of the French Camp
Boyish bravery and bravado
Jan 5
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Joseph Bottum
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