Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Poetry: S-U
Catalina Trevino Is Really From Heaven
By Gary Soto
Last night
At Mother Tomas’,
We danced the
Graciela
By Gary Soto
Wedding night
Graciela bled lightly—
But enough to stain his thighs—
That Vision That Should Begin With A Beer
By Gary Soto
Ah, to rise one morning
With the ability
To strum a guitar
Your Logic Frightens Me Mandela
By Wole Soyinka
Your logic frightens me, Mandela,
Your logic frightens me. Those years
Of dreams, of time accelerated in
The Geese
By Lisa Russ Spaar
Just as God is not my sorrow,
neither does this prow
above our gable where a love
Defining It
By Barry Spacks
It’s like water that gleams at the verge of the fall,
Each instant’s rush
Gemstone.
The Gift
By Barry Spacks
The gift,
And the unwrapping.
Stephen Spender’s Revisions
By Stephen Spender
At the end of two months’ holiday there came a night
When I lay awake and the seas’ distant fretless scansion
By imagination scourged rose to a fight
The Slave Coast
By Lawrence P. Spingarn
Here, where confusion flowered in the rains‚
The whip-mad captains steered for Teneriffe.
Their cargo was a cry. Knouts in the sheds
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By Elizabeth Spires
Two verticals lie down,
each to the other, a horizon,
each to the other,