Tag: W. B. Yeats

• * the 200th post: a cento

  Well, it had to happen: we’ve reached the 200th post on this blog! To celebrate, I decided to create a cento – a patchwork poem made by selecting lines from other people’s poems to create a singular poem (citing one’s sources, of course) – by going through all the posts published since I started this…

  José Angel Araguz

  February 6, 2015

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  Anna Akhmatova, Aries, arts, astrology, Bert Myers, Cancer, Charles Wright, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, Eugene Oregon, Gemini, Jamaal May, Jaroslav Seifert, Jose Angel Araguz, Leo, Libra, Linda Pastan, literature, Philip Larkin, Phoebe Tsang, Pisces, poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Lowell, Sagitttarius, short lyric poems, the friday influence, Tomas Tranströmer, Virgo, W. B. Yeats, writing

• * hare-brained with yeats

  Memory – W. B. Yeats One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain Because the mountain grass Cannot but keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain. *** I’ve spent the past week reading through the Collected Poems of Yeats. He’s been a go-to…

  José Angel Araguz

  June 6, 2014

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  arts, astrology, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, Dale Wisely, Gemini, hare, Jose Angel Araguz, Laura M. Kaminski, literature, lyric poems, Marc Vincenz, poetry, Right Hand Pointing, Sagittarius, short lyric poems, the friday influence, Virgo, W. B. Yeats, writing