Holy Day
by Philip Levine
Los Angeles hums
a little tune —
trucks down
the coast road
for Monday Market
packed with small faces
blinking in the dark.
My mother dreams
by the open window.
On the drainboard
the gray roast humps
untouched, the oven
bangs its iron jaws,
but it’s over.
Before her on the table
set for so many
her glass of fire
goes out.
The childish photographs,
the letters and cards
scatter at last.
The dead burn alone
toward dawn.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Death Of Captain Cooke, by William Lisle Bowles
- Song I: Though the World Be A-Waning by William Morris
- Наум Коржавин – Мой ритм заглох
- 3 Fun Ways to Stimulate Creative Thinking
- At the Party by W H Auden
- The Holy Mountain of Hope by Thomas Ziemer
- I the People poem – Alice Notley
- Николай Гумилев – Зачарованный викинг, я шел по земле
- Владимир Степанов – Эскимос (Буква Э)
- A Goodnight by William Carlos Williams
- Epigram on Andrew Turner by Robert Burns
- The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin
- A Paumanok Picture. by Walt Whitman
- Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled by Robert Burns
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Levine ( 1928 – 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well. He served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012