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Endings by Derek Walcott | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Endings by Derek Walcott | Poems Rethabile Likes Endings by Derek Walcott Things do not explode, they fail, they fade, as sunlight fades from the flesh, as the foam drains quick in the sand, even love’s lightning flash has no thunderous end, it dies with the sound of flowers fading like the flesh from sweating pumice stone, everything shapes this till we are left with the silence that surrounds Beethoven’s head. Poet: @DerekWalcott Online: @ReadALittlePoetry Book(s): @ThriftBooks ...
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The Tradition by Jericho Brown | Poems Rethabile Likes

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The Tradition by Jericho Brown | Poems Rethabile Likes The Tradition by Jericho Brown Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium. We thought Fingers in dirt were moving. We thought Up names for flowers and what for weeds. We pushed North. We planted seeds. We forgot how we died. That year we had Enough rain for the gardens. We had Plenty to eat. The flowers we had Hung their heads like girls in church. We forgot who we were. We had The sun on our backs. We had The names for things. The names for things. The flowers we had were not the names For flowers. We had the things. We had The soil. We had the light. We had The...
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Happy Birthday, Ella Wheeler Wilcox! | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Happy Birthday, Ella Wheeler Wilcox! | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, Ella Wheeler Wilcox! Poet • Novelist • Journalist • born 5 November 1850 Today we celebrate the birthday of Ella Wheeler Wilcox — an American poet, novelist, and journalist whose accessible, rhyming verse reached a large readership during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Often associated with optimism and emotional directness, she published collections including Poems of Passion (1883), Poems of Pleasure (1888), and Poems of Peace (1906). Her Poems of Passion initially met publishers' resistance because its acknowledgement of women's passions was considered improper — once published, it sold 60,000 copies in two years. Here is her "Bleak Weather," a bright, defiant love poem: let the snow...
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