The Art Divas / Divas of Verse
Blog of Rabih Alameddine
Sunday, June 12, 2016
The Gas-poker by Thom Gunn
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The Gas-poker Forty-eight years ago —Can it be forty-eight Since then?—they forced the door Which she had ba...
Friday, June 10, 2016
The Door Was Open and the House Was Dark by Seamus Heaney
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The Door Was Open and the House Was Dark The door was open and the house was dark Wherefore I called his name, a...
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Haiku by James Shea
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Haiku Upon Kissing You After You Vomited. Upon Walking You Home and You Pissing in Your Pants. Upon Asking a C...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
A Woman’s Letter by Radmila Lazić
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A Woman’s Letter I don’t want to be obedient and tame. Coddled like a cat. Faithful like a dog. With a belly t...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Love Poem by Audre Lorde
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Love Poem Speak earth and bless me with what is richest make sky flow honey out of my hips rigid as mountains ...
Monday, June 6, 2016
Spring Day by John Ashbery
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Spring Day The immense hope, and forbearance Trailing out of night, to sidewalks of the day Like air breathed into a pape...
Sunday, June 5, 2016
The Muse by Anna Akhmatova
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The Muse All that I am hangs by a thread tonight as I wait for her whom no one can command. Whatever I cherish most—youth, ...
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