by Keith Mankin | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
“To fling my arms wideIn some place of the sun,To whirl and to danceTill the white day is done.Then rest at cool eveningBeneath a tall treeWhile night comes on gently, Dark like me—That is my dream!” Langston Hughes,...
by Keith Mankin | Apr 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Because I cannot sleepI make music at night.I am troubled by the onewhose face has the color of spring flowers.I have neither sleep nor patience,neither a good reputation nor disgrace.A thousand robes of wisdom are gone.” Rumi, “Ode 314” (transl. by C Barks...
by Keith Mankin | Apr 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
“I know a thing that’s most uncommon;(Envy, be silent and attend!)I know a reasonable Woman,Handsome and witty, yet a Friend.Not warp’d by Passion, awed by Rumour;Not grave through Pride, nor gay through Folly,An equal Mixture of good HumourAnd...
by Keith Mankin | Apr 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
“i shall imagine lifeis not worth dying, if(and when) roses complaintheir beauties are in vainbut though mankind persuadesitself that every...
by Keith Mankin | Apr 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
“We real cool. WeLeft school. We Lurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeDie soon.”Gwendolyn Brooks. “We Real Cool”This is the poem that taught me about free verse, although it’s not really free verse, is it?...
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