Orion Magazine - https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/ America's Finest Environmental Magazine Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:04:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 195321810 River https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/river-ellen-bass-poem/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:00:08 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=269615 The McKenzie River’s half in shade, half molten silver and today, in the shallow water, a single salmon, has made it back to where she began, her scintillant body that moves ...

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]]> 269615 Morning Light https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/morning-light-mary-oliver/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 17:57:29 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=266296 Every morning  the good news   pours    through the field touching  every blossom   every stem    and each of them, on the instant  offers to be part of it—   offers to lift and ...

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]]> 266296 A Fresh Vision https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/a-fresh-vision-sharon-olds/ Mon, 29 May 2023 04:00:15 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=262308 One of the new vintage hankies is so delicate—linen lawn printed with blowsy ocher flowers, in them many black anthers—anemones—and with lining-of-the-body’s-openings bright pinks, and with lilies of the valley, turquoise ...

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]]> 262308 Happy End https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/happy-end/ Fri, 26 May 2023 15:11:59 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=262305 Shh! Rise and be quick about it. Gather your things. Brother, sister: You were older but I was the strong one, humming one leg, two, now socks, now shoes— all our ...

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]]> 262305 Dear May Eighth https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/dear-may-eighth/ Mon, 08 May 2023 14:54:27 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=261674 Why was the last kiss May seventhAnd so shy? Your tongue was skittish. Your clavicle—Door- bolt, little key,Tendril—Was the world’s cross-tree—Your collar bone was hot snow to touch. I wanted to ...

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]]> 261674 Some Daybreak Stanzas for Our Daughters https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/some-daybreak-stanzas-for-our-daughters/ Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:25:54 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=260686   The gibbous moon sits swollen amongthe god amounts, passing an elsewhereof those who know our daughters.Experience & peril are both experimental,from the root per, to risk.i call on figures whose ...

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]]> 260686 Tururucari-Uka Village https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/tururucari-uka-village/ Tue, 11 Apr 2023 04:00:58 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=258151 Translated from the Portuguese by Tiffany Higgins When Euaracy awakens Her rays come to greet us Showing the day has begun And it’s time to work. The Kambeba people’s village Isn’t ...

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]]> 258151 Slough https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/slough/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:00:24 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=260679 That you want to slip deepinto the forest. Pine needleslike the sharpest animal’s hair,a lake at the end of the trees’illusion tunnel. That the fishwould flip delightedly outof the water’s vast ...

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]]> 260679 A Hungry Nation https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/a-hungry-nation-poem/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:30:00 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=258153   Who would like to plant mines in the fatherland? I know how to plant a potato in the soft earth, something our fathers learned from their fathers.Who would like to ...

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]]> 258153 Poetry https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/poetry-poem-chun-yu/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:56:19 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=poem&p=260646 Poems are birds in the kingdoms of languagesAlways flying towards each other and paradise Poetry is a time tunnel through whichYou and I gaze at each otherTime immemorial and nowEvery year ...

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