Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHINESE POET, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poet's Biography First Line: Today the lightest breeze Last Line: One leaf, or life, more? Subject(s): Leaves; Life; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Today the lightest breeze Takes tribute from the trees. Golden leaves flutter down, Crimson leaves, purple, brown, On the tide, past the town... Down! I walk along the shore, Like many gone before, And sadly ask, What matters it, One leaf, or life, more? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A CHARM TO BRING CHILDREN (EGYPT, A.D. 100) by CALE YOUNG RICE |
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