The Daily Poem

Today’s poem traces the waxing and waning of lights around the Bay City. Happy reading.

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In today’s poem, arboreal imagery indicates the fate of a knight’s soul. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem feels the deep sadnesses of Arthurian myth in the poet’s native soil. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem offers poetry as a survival mechanism. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem exults unselfconsciously in a rich harvest. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem meander’s sleepily but steadily through an irregular rhyme scheme and looks back on a day’s work–if not more. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem offers an implicit encouragement to harried mothers. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem taps into the powerful connection between food, love, and nostalgia. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem is especially topical as The Daily Poem returns after a brief storm delay. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem weathers the unfriendliness of the natural world. Happy reading.

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In today’s poem the bard urges his subject not to bury the gifts of Nature in the grave. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem–a masterclass in subtlety and imagery–makes you feel the scale of the farewell before it arrives. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem, translated from the Irish by Seamus Heaney, delivers precisely what the title promises. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem praises September and mystifies it with a coy turn in the final stanza. Enjoy the last day of this finest of months. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem is a lament over a caged beauty. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem is a comic self-portrait in verse from a poet who spent years working as a painter. Happy reading.

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In today’s poem, death is a country beyond the sea. Happy reading.

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Today’s poem gives us a poet making sense of his restlessness and finding in it the mechanism that draws him upward to God. Happy reading.

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In today’s poem, the poet discovers unexpected value in his writing. Happy reading.

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Today we are remembering Annie Dillard. Her poem offers not only advice for living, but an approach to understanding a life in retrospect. Happy reading.

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