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God Pours Light by Hafiz | Poems Rethabile Likes

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God Pours Light by Hafiz | Poems Rethabile Likes God Pours Light by Hafiz God pours light into every cup, quenching darkness. The proudly pious stuff their cups with parchment and critique the taste of ink while God pours light and the trees lift their limbs without worry of redemption, every blossom a chalice. Hafiz, seduce those withered souls with words that wet their parched lips as light pours like rain into every empty cup set adrift on the Infinite Ocean. Poet: @Hafiz ...

behind closed curtains by Siza Nkosi | Poems Rethabile Likes

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behind closed curtains by Siza Nkosi | Poems Rethabile Likes behind closed curtains by Siza Nkosi there is a room in our house that's draped in red curtains behind them is a box covered in long silence we never let the sun in when night falls we go inside the room holding white candles open the curtains for moonlight hold the box very close to our hearts and remember Poet: @PoetryPotion Online: @Botsotso Book(s): @AfricanBooksCollective ...

The Old Flame by Robert Lowell | Poems Rethabile Likes

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The Old Flame by Robert Lowell | Poems Rethabile Likes "The Old Flame" by Robert Lowell Poet Robert Lowell . Find his books 📖 Read along The Old Flame My old flame, my wife! Remember our lists of birds? One morning last summer, I drove by our house in Maine. It was still on top of its hill, Now a red ear of Indian maize was splashed on the door. Old Glory with thirteen stripes hung on a pole. The clapboard was old-red schoolhouse red. Inside, a new landlord, a new wife, a new broom! Atlantic seaboard antique shop pewter and plunder shone in each room. A new frontier! No running next door now to phone the sheriff for his taxi to Bath and the State Liquor...