Poetry
— A meditation on time as both enemy and friend, resolving to embrace each day's activities rather than mourn its passing.
— A child watches their old house disappear through the car window as the family drives away to a new home, capturing the moment of leaving.
— Goodbye, Earth: rising rising I am rising above the grass, and falling toward the moon.
— A concrete poem creates stars from periods across the page, ending with 'A memory of Joy' as the final constellation in a starless night.
— A child captures autumn's arrival through sound patterns, describing wool sweaters, breezy sneezes, chattering trees, and red leaves flooding streets like a stream.
— Birds endure a devastating storm that transforms their peaceful sea home, then witness the rainbow and crystalline water that follow.
— In early morning solitude, a teenager reflects from her blue chair, treasuring this pause before the world returns to normal and her sanctuary becomes ordinary again.
— A mixed-race teenager rejects the 'café au lait' metaphor others use, claiming instead the power of being a thunderstorm where opposing forces create energy and change.
— Three distinct portraits of rain capture its varied moods: mystical mist, violent tempest, and bleak drizzle, each rendered through precise sensory language.
— Transcript: Hello, and welcome to Poetry Soup! I’m your host, Emma Catherine Hoff. Today I’ll be talking about the poem, “An Ox Looks at Man,” by Carlos Drummond de Andrade,...