http://dailystanza.com Daily poetry for inspiration, emotion, and thought. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:45:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en photo credit: Hulton Images / Getty Images via The Great American Summer Jailhouse Rock by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller performed by Elvis Presley The warden threw a party in the county jail. The prison band was there and they began to wail. The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing. You should've heard those ... http://dailystanza.com/2009/07/07/a-little-bit-from-the-king/ photo credit: Baergaj When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman 1 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming ... http://dailystanza.com/2009/07/06/lilacs-dooryard-walt-whitman/ Elizabeth by Edgar Allan Poe Elizabeth, it surely is most fit [Logic and common usage so commanding] In thy own book that first thy name be writ, Zeno and other sages notwithstanding; And I have other reasons for so doing Besides my innate love of contradiction; Each poet - if a poet - in pursuing The muses thro' their ... http://dailystanza.com/2009/07/05/elizabeth-edgar-allan-poe/ photo credit: JPStanley Warning by Ella Wheeler Wilcox High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning, Albeit the sun shone bright; Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning, ‘Remember Night! ’ http://dailystanza.com/2009/07/01/warning-ella-wheeler-wilcox/ photo credit: Kasem Marifet Clown in the Moon by Dylan Thomas My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of unremembered skies and snows. I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream. http://dailystanza.com/2009/06/30/clown-in-the-moon-dylan-thomas/ It has been raining in Maine for the past 4 weeks with few days enjoyable. I present a poem from Thoreau for the occasion. photo credit: Cosmonautirussi The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read, 'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray ... http://dailystanza.com/2009/06/29/summer-rain-henry-david-thoreau/ photo credit: Derek Farr Legacy by Amiri Baraka (For Blues People) In the south, sleeping against the drugstore, growling under the trucks and stoves, stumbling through and over the cluttered eyes of early mysterious night. Frowning drunk waving moving a hand or lash. Dancing kneeling reaching out, letting a hand rest in shadows. Squatting to drink or pee. Stretching ... http://dailystanza.com/2009/06/25/legacy-amiri-baraka/ Je t'adore by Thomas Kinsella The other props are gone. Sighing in one another's Iron arms, propped above nothing, We praise Love the limiter. http://dailystanza.com/2009/06/24/je-tadore-thomas-kinsella/ photo credit: Teri Parker Night in Arizona by Sara Teasdale The moon is a charring ember Dying into the dark; Off in the crouching mountains Coyotes bark. The stars are heavy in heaven, Too great for the sky to hold -- What if they fell and shattered The earth with gold? No lights ... http://dailystanza.com/2009/06/23/night-in-arizona-sara-teasdale/ photo credit: Bendus Late Came the God by Rudyard Kipling Late came the God, having sent his forerunners who were not regarded-- Late, but in wrath; Saying: "The wrong shall be paid, the contempt be rewarded On all that she hath." He poisoned the blade and struck home, the full bosom receiving The wound and the venom in one, ... http://dailystanza.com/2009/06/22/late-came-the-god-rudyard-kipling/