Category Archives: Words

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/images/Sisyphus.jpg

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.meaningless.com/ Life Is Like a Package Life is like a package that arrives in the mail: a present for your sister. Unable to open it, you squeeze it, massage its shape with your fingers. At first … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/ei_poetry_cofer.html The Other A sloe-eyed dark woman shadows me. In the morning she sings Spanish love songs in a high falsetto, filling my shower stall with echoes. She is by my side in front of the … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.unesco.org/poetry/bienvenue.php?initia=english Merry Poetry Day!

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/710.html Vergissmeinnicht “forget me not” Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the soldier sprawling in the sun. The frowning barrel of his gun … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_poem (the poems below come from the collection here, most of which are from the book Japanese Death Poems compiled by Yoel Hoffmann)