Today’s poem is about loyalty to the toughest crop in town. Happy reading.

Today’s poem has some strong words for the apple. Happy reading.

Today’s poem, translated by Kristian Josifoski, makes a pepper into more than a pepper. Happy reading.

Today’s poem is all about the correlation between the elaborate architecture of a lie and the pleasure that telling it can give. Maybe an allegory for art? Maybe a playful confession? Maybe a political commentary? Happy reading.

Today’s poem is about the strange whys and ways of trying to endure in this world. Happy reading.

Today’s poem is an open-ended sonnet-versation (sonnet conversation) between youth and experience–with the rarer twist that the dynamic is here presented in the context of a potential romance. Happy reading.

“The effort to be/ accomplished, without experience,/ is something to pity”

Happy reading.

There are few joys as pure as singing in the summer time. Happy reading.

Today’s poem is one of the best known English war poems, both challenging popular notions of the glories of warfare and acknowledging the oft-unseen sacrifices of service. Happy reading.

“…a word might turn you

all the bent ways to love, its mercies

practiced, its one day at a time

begun and lived and slept on and begun.”

Happy reading.