The Gray Heron

Galway Kinnell, 1927 - 2014

It held its head still

while its body and green

legs wobbled in wide arcs

from side to side. When

it stalked out of sight,

I went after it, but all

I could find where I was

expecting to see the bird

was a three-foot-long lizard

in ill-fitting skin

and with linear mouth

expressive of the even temper

of the mineral kingdom.

It stopped and tilted its head,

which was much like

a fieldstone with an eye

in it, which was watching me

to see if I would go

or change into something else.

I found this poem very interesting because is so intense and the fact of have been written for one poet not so famous got me intrigued and it deserves to be more read.

Marcela 2EC2

A Dream Within a Dream

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

Gabriel Moraes - 2EC3

How To Eat a Poem

by Eve Merriam

Don't be polite.

Bite in.

Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that

may run down your chin.

It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.

You do not need a knife or fork or spoon

or plate or napkin or tablecloth.

For there is no core

or stem

or rind

or pit

or seed

or skin

to throw away.

Juliana Chaves - 2EC3

Take, O take those Lips away

William Shakespeare

TAKE, O take those lips away,

That so sweetly were forsworn;

And those eyes, the break of day,

Lights that do mislead the morn!

But my kisses bring again,

Bring again;

Seals of love, but seal'd in vain,

Seal'd in vain!

João Rafael - 2EC3