poetry

Matt Berninger Poetry is like ice skating, whereas songwriting to me feels like swimming. With songwriting, you’re down in the water and you’re really reacting to the music, whereas with poetry, you’re on the top. All through “Horses” you hear someone who is probably more comfortable in poetry starting to become a singer and a songwriter, starting... See more

SOMETIMES

by David Whyte

Sometimes

if you move carefully

through the forest,

breathing

like the ones

in the old stories,

who could cross

a shimmering bed of leaves

without a sound,

you come to a place

whose only task

is to trouble you

with tiny

but frightening requests,

conceived out of nowhere

but in this place

beginning to lead everywhere.

Requests to stop what

you

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Theater

by William Greenway

WEDNESDAY, 2 MARCH, 2005

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Poem: "Theater" by William Greenway, from Fishing at the End of the World. © Word Press. Reprinted with permission.

Theater

Like the neighborhood kind

you went to as a kid, full

of yellow light and red

velvet curtains and everybody

there, friends, bullies throwing

popcorn,... See more