Fifty-six poems on poems and poetry, in four groups and a coda. Each title opens the poem on this site; the whole collection is below to read or download.
Contents
What a Poem Is
In Your Hand
Poetry Is What Goes Missing
The Poet Speaks of Darkness
Can a Poem Save a Life?
Your Life a Poem
On the Wings of Poetry
A Poem with Wings
Who Will Speak for Trees?
Dancing Lessons
Divine, the Comedy
“Do You See How Young a Feeling Is?” – Halie Leland
The Making
To Write a Poem
A Moon for Children
Lucubrations
Poem (“I forgot myself”)
Poem (“You speak and disappear”)
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον
Polytropos
Carmen Nocturnum IX
Carmen Nocturnum IV
Gone Fishing
Marginalia
Mr. Bones
From Prose to Poetry
No Nonsense Poems
The Rhyme
Rhyming Is Overrated
On Revision
Words
Words of No Regret
Carmen Nocturnum X
Lacrimae Rerum
This My Ship
Prayer
Immemorial
This Side of Silence
Fifty Words
“Of”
There Is Something I Wanted to Say
The Weyward Wind
Mnemosyne
A Second Sailing
Poets, Readers, Teachers
The Night above the Dingle Starry
Windswept Days
Flute Music
Forever Nevermore
Father’s Gift
Line and Breath
May This Man of Infinite Jest Rest in Peace
Scopuli Sirenum
To Dance on Mars
Mistaken Identity
Reading Lesson
Creative Writing
Coda
Poetry Is Inspired Song
On Metaphor
All of It