three poems...

...because at least three people on my flist posted a "post a poem when you see this post" post yesterday...

Countee Cullen's "Song" is one of my favorite of favorites from high school. I'll be reading it aloud this coming Sunday at church (I'm working on a sermon titled "Ambisexuality"):

( So many ways love has, none may appear / The bitter best, and none the sweetest worst. )

The entry for September 20 in one of my favorite anthologies, Foster and Guthrie's A Year In Poetry, is Charley George's "Death and the Poet":

( he did not mind getting killed, he told his seconds, but dreaded getting wet. )

This last one -- C.H. Sisson's "A Letter to John Donne" -- is also in the Foster-Guthrie anthology. It's not unlike "The Hound of Heaven", in that it's not a poem with which I have much in common -- and yet, like the Thompson, it slays me with its gorgeous ferocity:

( You would understand that in the presence of folly / I am not sanctified but angry. )

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