Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - Featured Poems

Forever you find     your father in other faces— a balding head    or beard enough to send you following for blocks after    to make sure you’re wrong, or buyin...

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Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. H...

http://www.columbiagrangers.org/poem/00000094597

In December 1941, after Lvov had already been seized by Nazis while you labored diligently by day as a quiet feeder of lice in a virus lab and joined your heart to the resistance that would ...

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There were always these fingers Winding cotton and wool— Momentary clouds—into thread. Was always that diminishing. Words Whittled and stretched into meaning. And meaning here is:...

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1 If that someone who's me yet not me yet who judges me is always with me, as he is, shouldn't he have been there when I said so long ago that thing I said? If he who rakes me with such ...

http://www.columbiagrangers.org/poem/00000275645

Once more following the blue grief of the evening Down the hill, to the springtime fishpond— As if the shadows of those dead for a long time were hovering above, The shadows of church ...

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put off your faces, Death: for day is over (and such a day as must remember he who watched unhands describe what mimicry, with angry seasalt and indignant clover marrying to themselves ...

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Oh, when the ghosts go by,  Under the empty trees, Here in my house I sit and cry,  My head upon my knees! Innumerable, white,  Like mist they fill the square; The bolt is dra...

http://www.columbiagrangers.org/poem/00000247221