Panjandrum Poetry Series: Father

Father

Not even a prayer in this wind of hollow and change,
Will down my Father's house or bring stillness to the trees,
The hands that held my hands will not build my church,
Or parish the sun in a gold gibbous case.

That heart outside my heart--a tried, winded, simple space
Where love lived low and galed inside black irises.
Stern, taciturn, and taller than pines; I stood
at one knee and waited for the oak to bend.

Unable to stand through the long blue day,
kneeling in wrested piety, I see the ignoble weep,
And learning that men are not as tall as these,
Whispering to the wind, I bring stillness to the trees.

                                       ~Marylou Canevari

The Vitual Anthology Installment Eleven

T. S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
"Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

William Butler Yeats "A Coat"
"A Coat""

Charles Baudelaire "The Stranger"
"The Stranger"

William Ernest Henley "Invictus"
"Invictus"

Robert Frost "Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same"
"Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same"

Panjandrum Poetry Series: Poem, April, Time and Light

Poem, April, Time and Light
(for Lou)

We know, as lovers, the sun has many wings,

poem, April, time and light.

You fold into a touch what I saw strowing

all to be too crushed to love or plight

and yet no star is so outspread

as what you open faith and stone

what last was cold I clutch instead

the light and power that is your own

to every stint, for I've everything

that havens make and all that’s good to me,

our simple nights of homemaking,

to hold and be the love we want to be

so close I feel the time entire

when any moment I reach out of the fire.

~William Frank

The Vitual Anthology Installment Ten

Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
"The Moon and the Yew Tree"


Robert Frost "Stopping by a Woods On a Snowy Evening"
"Stopping by a Woods On a Snowy Evening"

William Empson "The Teasers"
"The Teasers"

Anthony Hecht "Claire de Lune"
"Claire de Lune"

Emily Dickinson "The Brain is Wider than the Sky"
"The Brain is Wider than the Sky"

Virtual Anthology Installment 9

E. E. Cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
"my father moved through dooms of love"

Gerard Manley Hopkins "God's Grandeur"
"God's Grandeur"

Dylan Thomas "The Force That Through The Green Fuse"
"The Force That Through The Green Fuse"

Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

W. H. Auden "Their Lonely Betters"
"Their Lonely Betters"

The Vitual Anthology Installment Eight

Carl Sandburg, "Grass"
"Grass"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H."
"In Memoriam A.H.H."

Anthony Hecht, "Dover Bitch"
"Dover Bitch"

Dylan Thomas, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
"And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

David Gascoyne, "Spring MCMXL"
"Spring MCMXL"