Short
Your Monday Vitamin
I have been posting longish poems lately, so here’s something I like that takes about 30 seconds to read and absorb:
Promise
Long nights, short years. Forgiving
silence
When morning comes, and pain--
no one is a stranger, this whole world is your home.
(From Only Poems Daily)
Fun fact, Franz Wright was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.
My favorite Franz Wright poem:
Untitled
This was the first time I knelt
and with my lips, frightened, kissed
the lit inwardly pink petaled lips.
It was like touching a bird’s exposed heart
with your tongue.
Summer dawn flowing into the room parting the
curtains—the lamps dimming—breeze
rendered visible. Lightning,
and then soft applause
from the leaves . . .
Almost children, we lay asleep in love listening to the
rain.
We didn’t ask to be born.
— Franz Wright, “Untitled,” Earlier Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)
Wow. Thanks!