slowly with you,

If there is only enough time in the final
minutes of the twentieth century for one last dance
I would like to be dancing it slowly with you,
...
There will be no time to order another drink
or worry about what was never said,

Dancing Toward Bethlehem [excerpts]
Billy Collins

Won't you

Won't you come into the garden?
I would like my roses to see you.

Richard Sheridan

always

There is always room for beauty

The Poetry of Earth [excerpt]
Florence Earl Coates

I Ask You

What scene would I want to be enveloped in
more than this one,

I Ask You [excerpt]
Billy Collins

First Anniversary of The BP

Be patient that I address you in a poem,
                  there is no other
                                fit medium.

To Daphne and Virginia [excerpt]
William Carlos Williams

At a Window

Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!

But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,
One little wandering, western star
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow.
Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming
Of a little love.


At a Window
Carl Sandburg

Come back to me.

Apocalypto

speaks to me

…a profusion
of pink roses bending ragged in the rain –
speaks to me of all gentleness and its
enduring.

To All Gentleness [excerpt]
William Carlos Williams

on jealousy

You see in other people what you want for yourself.

-Taxi Driver Wisdom

a pillow for my soul.

Your face is my palace,
your eyes – blue, near –
a pillow for my soul.

In the Palace of Your Face [excerpt]
Abraham Joshua Heschel