Poetry Is Endless

I keep in one file  poems I love
It’s my own anthology
I read & reread poems at least a half hour every day
I have many more to add…
(Like Li Ch’ing-Chao, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Li Bo, Yeats, Blake, Waldman…..)

Abutsu-Ni

Who Knows

Anonymnous

Anryu Suharu

Oak Tree

Sherko Bekas

Separation

Giaconda Belli 

Free Country: July 19, 1979

Ernest Cardenal

1. Apparition in Hamburg
2. Before a Photo
3. Blessed the Man (Psalm 1)
4. Cell Phone
5. Epigram #8
6. Epigram #11
7. Epigraph #30: Epitaph for the Tomb of Adolfo Baez Bone
8. Epigraph #43
9. Epistle to Monsignor Casaldaliga
10. Nicaraguan Canto
11. Oracle over Managua
12. Prayer for Marilyn Monroe
13. Recalling All of a Sudden
14. Recordings of the Sacred Pipe
15. Room 5600
16. The U.S. Congress Approves Aid to the Contras
17. The White Goddess
18. The Wretched of the Earth (Psalm 44)
19. Trip to Germany (1973)
20. Trip to New York
21. Unrighteous Mammon (Luke 16.9)
22. Visit to Weimar (GDR)
23. Zero Hour

Ricardo Castorrivas 

Soneto amargo a la taza de café

Chine-Jo

Fireflies

Mercedes Durand

They Fell on the Stairway

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1. Allen Ginsberg Dying
2. An Elegy on the Death of Kenneth Patchen
3. An Elegy to Dispel Gloom
4. Christ Climbed Down
5. Come Lie with Me and Be My Love
6. Dragon’s Teeth
7. Eight People on a Golf Course And One Bird of Freedom Flying Over
8. History of the Airplane
9. How Fragile the Flesh
10. I am Waiting
11. Into the Interior
12. O Heart
13. One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro
14. “Pity the Nation”
15. Poetry as  Subversive Art
16. Populist Manifesto
17. Recipe for Happiness in Khabarovsk or Anyplace
18. Rough Song of Animals Dying
19. Sandinista Avioncitos
20. Sometime during Eternity
21. Song of the Third World Birds
22. Tall Tale of the Tall Cowboy
23. The General Song of Humanity
24. The Old Italians Dying
25. They Were Putting up the Statue of Saint Francis
26. Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes

Fujiwara No Yoshifusa

Allen Ginsberg

1. Cosmopolitan Greetings
2. Death and Fame
3. Improvisation in Beijing
4. I Am a Victim of  Telephone
5. Is About
6. Kaddish [selections]
7. May Days 1988
8. New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
9. Personals Ad
10. September on Jessore Road
11. To Aunt Rose
12. World Bank Blues
13. Yiddishe Kopf

Henjo

Hitomaro

A strange old man

Naga Uta

Ikkyu  Sojun

Ishigaki Rin

Shellfish

Issa

In My Life

Izumi Shikibu

At the Sutra chanting of her dead daughter

Kenjei

Kenrei Mon-in Ukyo no Daibu

Karma

Kujo Takeko

Worth Counting

Mansei

Manyoshu

Marichiko

Dunya Mikhail

1. America
2. An Urgent Call
3. Bag of Bones
4. The Prisoner
5. The War Works Hard

Murasaki Shikibu

This life of ours

Muso Soseki

Ono No Komachi

Otomo No Yakamochi

Edward Arlington Robinson

1. Miniver Cheevy
2. Mr. Flood’s Party
3. Reuben Bright
4. Richard Corey
5. The House on the Hill
6. Villanelle of Change

Ryoto

No One Spoke

Saigyo

Ernesto Mejia Sanchez

The Death of Somoza

Ed Sanders

1. Le’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War
2. Multi-Decade Research Systems
3. The Egyptian “Sesh”
4. The Question of Self-Publishing
5. To the Revolutionaries Not Yet Born
6. Whispering Books
7. You Have to Be Ready for Ridicule

Andrea Scarpino

August 6, Hiroshima

Detritus

Self-Portrait

Clementina Suarez

Combate

Wislawa Szymborska

1. ABC
2. A Word on Statistics
3. Advertisement
4. Could Have
5. Dreams
6. Funeral
7. Here
8. In Praise of Dreams
9. May 16, 1973
10. Miracle Fair
11. Pi
12. The End and the Beginning
13. The Terrorist, He’s Watching
14. The Three Oddest Words
15. The Turn of the Century
16. Under One Small Star
17. Vietnam

Thich Nhat Hanh

Those That Have Not Exploded

Alice Walker

1. Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
2. Democratic Womanism
3. Hope to Sin Only in the Service of Waking Up
4. If They Come To Shoot You
5. Occupying Mumia’s Cell
6. Our Martyrs
7. To Change the World Enough
8. Sailing the Hot Streets of Athens. Greece
9. The Joyful news of Your Arrest
10. Thousands of Feet Below You
11. We Pay a Visit to Those Who Play at Being Dead
12. What Makes the Dalai Lama Lovable?
13. You Want To Grow Old Like The Carters

Walt Whitman

1. Beginners
2. Beginning My Studies
3. I Hear America Singing
4. I Hear it Was Charged against Me
5. Me Imperturbe
6. One’s-Self I Sing
7. Poets To Come
8. This Is What You Shall Do
9. To You

William Butler Yeats

1. For Anne Gregory

Yosano Akiko

Tangled Hair

I Have the Delusion

Daisy Zamora

1. 50 Love Poems and an Unfulfilled Confession to Ernesto Cardenal
2. Commander Two
3. Detail
4. Emilia, the Nurse
5. Lament
6. Minimal Elegy
7. Precisely
8. Prescription
9. Song of Hope
10. Supermarket News
11. To the Last