Thursday, May 23, 2013

Folly


The broken plate,
where fasting lasts,
suggests hunger.

A faceless picture
is in frame,
an empty reminder
of what was, and will never
be again.

Sinners of all souls
are lost,
their path to redemption
runs through perdition.

Not everything staid
is explicable,
something the illiterate find
inexplicable.

It is the fool's folly,
who fails to understand
the broken plate.


© 2013 emmett wheatfall
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Authors, Books, and Poetry

  • Ashbery, John. A Worldly Country (HarperCollins)
  • Billington, Ray Allen. Limericks Historical and Hysterical (W. W. Norton & Company)
  • Collins, Billy. The Trouble With Poetry (Random House)
  • Giovvanni, Nkki. Cotton Candy On A Rainy Day (Quill)
  • Gluck, Louise. A Village Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Gluck, Louise. The Wild Iris (The Ecco Press)
  • Hayes, A. Jarrell. To Woman, From Man (A. Jarrell Hayes)
  • Hoagland, Tony. donkey gospel (Graywolf Press)
  • Hoagland, Tony. History of Desire (Moon Pony Press)
  • Hoagland, Tony. Real Sofistikashum (Graywolf Press)
  • Hoagland, Tony. Sweet Ruin (The University of Wisconsin Press)
  • Hoagland, Tony. Unincorporated Person in the Late Honda Dynasty (Graywolf Press)
  • Hoagland, Tony. What Narcissism Means To Me (Graywolf Press)
  • Hughes, Langston. The Dream Keeper and other poems (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Kooser, Ted. Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon Press)
  • Litte, William A. An Anthology Of Black Women Poets Of Oregon (Portland State University)
  • Merwin W.S. The Second Four Books Of Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
  • Merwin, W.S. The Shadow Of Sirius (Copper Canyon Press)
  • Nordhaus, Jean. The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn (Milkweed Editions)
  • Oliver, Mary. House Of Light (Beacon Press)
  • Oliver, Mary. What Do We Know (Da Capo Press
  • Oliver, Mary. Why I Wake Early (Beacon Press)
  • Phillips, Carl. Coin of the Realm (Graywolf Press)
  • Phillips, Carl. Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (Farrar Straus and Giroux)
  • Plath, Sylvia. Ariel (HarperCollins
  • Randall, Dudley. The Black Poets (Bantam Books)
  • Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters To A Young Poet (New World Library)
  • Sagar, Keith. D. H. Lawrence: Poems (Penguin Books)
  • Walcott, Derek. Omeros (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)