Archive - Poems Ancient and Modern

Today’s Poem: Silence

Babette Deutsch’s darkly hinted wonder of things not spoken

50 mins ago •

Today’s Poem: Recipe for a Salad

Deem it not, thou Man of Herbs, a Fault

Nov 20 •

Today’s Poem: You That Seek What Life Is in Death

Fulke Greville’s Eternity as Paradox

Nov 19 •

Today’s Poem: the moon looked into my window

a fragile light bent gatheringly

Nov 18 •

Today’s Poem: Poetry

On Marianne Moore’s birthday, a toast to all this fiddle

Nov 15 •

Today’s Poem: Timor Mortis Conturbat Me

The fear of death disturbs me

Nov 14 •

Today’s Poem: The Answers

A quack, a honk, an oink, a moo, for a Light Wednesday poem

Nov 13 •

Today’s Poem: The Rejected Member’s Wife

She will no more stand / In the sunshine there

Nov 12 •

Today’s Poem: First Time In

Singing in the dark

Nov 11 •

Today’s Poem: Queen-Anne’s Lace

William Carlos Williams’s Metaphysical rejection of metaphysics

Nov 8 •

Today’s Poem: A Poet to His Baby Son

Cursed with his father’s mind

Nov 7 •

Today’s Poem: How To Tell the Wild Animals

If there is nothing on the tree, / ’Tis the Chameleon you see.

Nov 6 •

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