Wild Geese by Wendell Berry

The Wild Geese Horseback on Sunday morning, harvest over, we taste persimmon and wild grape, sharp sweet of summer’s end. In time’s maze over fall fields, we name names that went west from here, names that rest on graves. We open a persimmon seed to find the tree that stands in promise, pale, in the […]

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Ode to Autumn by John Keats

Ode To Autumn John Keats 1. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, […]

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Names of Horses by Donald Hall

Names Of Horses – Poem by Donald Hall   All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding /and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul/ sledges of cordwood for drying through spring and summer, /for the Glenwood stove next winter, and for the simmering range. In April you pulled cartloads of manure to spread […]

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Autumn comes to the Charles

The Summer was a wonderful time for The Poetry Tree on the Charles.  New poems were posted on the tree by a number of people.  The poems included one by Christian Wyman, one by Theresa Cader, two by Wendell Berry, and two poems by local artists who posted their work anonymously.  With the arrival of […]

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