“Land Down Under” by Men at Work
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Men at Work singing Land Down Under “Land Down Under” by Colin Hay of Men at Work Traveling in a fried-out combie1 On a...
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“Scissors” by Alan Gould
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Scissors by Alan Gould They have become her fingers. Her present ends possess no closer friends. Silver twins, dividing...
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“Road Sign in Eastbourne” by Windsor Arbonne
A Little Blue Penguin (Eudyptula minor) Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Road Sign in Eastbourne by Windsor Arbonne Toward Eastbourne (and whatever else we...
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Tuesday Poem: “Dreams” by Edgar Allan Poe
Thomas Stothard's 'Tempest' (c 1799). Says Prospero: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."“Dreams” was selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read...
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“At Melville’s Tomb” by Hart Crane
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he...
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Editing the Tuesday Poem Blog This Week –“Pigs” by Les Murray
Les Murray. Photograph by Adam Hollingworth.This week I’m the editor of the Tuesday Poem blog. The poem I’ve selected is “Pigs” by Les Murray. Hoping to read all the Tuesday Poets’ submissions this...
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Summary of the Tuesday Poems this Week
Keith Westwater imagines Ruamoko, god of earthquakes and volcanoes, madly derailing trains in his memorable poem “Ruamoko, trainwrecker.” Photo: Image of train tracks after the Canterbury...
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Tuesday Poem: “Leaves of Glass”— the Canberra Poems of P.S. Cottier
Hyderabad’s Charminar1. A Love-Drunk Sultan and Canberra’s King Hard to imagine more contrasting cities than stately, expansive, rule-obsessed Canberra, where I reside most the year, and the raucous,...
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Tuesday Poem: “Bonsai” by Cecily Barnes
Who needs your stunted style, your tiny jewels of thwarted art, to snatch a kite flown loose or bad-thrown ball? Or your unsayable rules of infinite pleasures unknown, delights abstruse, to feel soft...
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I’m the editor at the Tuesday Poetry blog this week. Join us in the comments and discussion. You can read this same post — and many other poems and commentary — over there. Fiona Apple - Container...
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