Day 291. 10/18/25. “Words”. Song lyric Saturday with this 1982 track by Missing Persons. If you listen, or you know, I dare you to not take your voice up an octave, or two, while singing along. #poemaday365

Day 290. 10/17/25. “Crayola Da Gamba”. Merril Gilfillan. #poemaday365

Day 289. 10/16/25. “Ethics”. Timothy Steele. #TBT 1985 #poemaday365

Day 288.10/15/25.“It Doesn’t Matter If I’m Misunderstood”.Joshua Jennifer Mendoza.“There is both a sense of pain and joy in being unseen and unknown. The danger of being understood is in being grasped, held too tight. The terror of a lack of constraint is a source of ultimate freedom.” #poemaday365

Day 287. 10/14/25. “Rainy Day”. Bert Meyers. #poemaday365

Day 286. 10/13/25. “Childhood”. #poemaday365

Day 285. 10/12/25. “Sermon”. Sarah Gzemski. Spiritual Sunday with this 2022 poem. #poemaday365

Day 284. 10/11/25. “Always in the Past”. Song lyric Saturday with this 1996 track by Tears For Fears. #poemaday365

Day 283. 10/10/25. “Scissors”. Omama Zaier.Translated from Arabic by Ali Znaid. According to the translator, “With a poetic voice that is as tantalizingly uncontrolled as it is intellectually sublime, Zaier’s poem brims with audacity, sensuality, music, and cultural references.” #poemaday365

Day 282. 10/9/25. “Homage”. Stephen Dunn. #TBT 1996 #poemaday365

Day 281. 10/8/25. “See the World”. Brynja Hjálmsdóttir.Translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton. #poemaday365

Day 280. 10/7/25. “tryouts”. Gary Jackson. According to the poet, “It’s not required reading, but if you can—go find a copy of Justice League of America #173. The cover alone is worth the price of admission. This poem reimagines the central plot of that issue . . .“ #poemaday365

Day 279. 10/6/25. “The thing about shadows on a hillside”. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 278. 10/5/25. “Sole Blessing”. J. Allyn Rosser. Spiritual Sunday with this piece that explores love, religion, God, The Divine, and spirituality. #poemaday365

Day 277. 10/4/25. “Speak”. Song lyric Saturday with this track by Godsmack from their 2006 release “IV”. #poemaday365

Day 276. 10/3/25. “Be the Dog”. Shane Kowalski. According to the poet, he tried to “meld the aesthetics of Lydia Davis and Georges Bataille.” #poemaday365

Day 275. 10/2/25. “Desire”. Jayanta Mahapantra. #TBT 1975. #poemaday365

Day 274. 10/1/25. “One acquires an especially lush gender.” Toby Altman. According to the poet, he “wrote this poem at Target . . . You can go to Target and be in pain, exhausted, overwhelmed by desire: poetry is the art of going to Target badly.” #poemaday365

Day 273. 9/30/25. “So Long”. Sunni Brown Wilkinson. According to the poet: “Like poetry and solitude. And just living in a body. I tend to my inner life like I do my garden: fitfully at times but with earnest devotion.” #poemaday365

Day 272. 9/29/25. “107 Water Street”. Henri Cole. A poem modeled after Elizabeth Bishop’s elegy for Robert Lowell titled ‘North Haven’. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 271. 9/28/25. “I Went Out To Hear”. Leila Chatti. Spiritual Sunday with this poem in which the poet explores a difficult feeling in their life based on a previous trip and the inability to go anywhere. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 270. 9/27/25. “Deity”. Song lyric Saturday with this 2022 track by the artist Demo Club. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 269. 9/26/25. “Basketball Sonnet with a Wish the Game Would Go On”. Cody Smith. Although a #girldad, this one hits on so many different levels. #poemaday365

Day 268. 9/24/25. “Stanzas”. Emily Jane Brontë. #TBT 1846. #poemaday365

Day 267. 9/24/25. “Book of Sleep”. Darius Atefat-Peckham. According to the poet, “I’ve always been interested in dreams and the subconscious: where else does the mind travel in that uninhibited, imaginative realm?” #poemaday365

Day 266. 9/23/25. “The Oracle Delivers Your Pizza”. Natasha Ramoutar. #poemaday365

Day 255. 9/22/25. “Sweet Magnolia”. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 264. 9/21/25. “Underneath (13)”. Jorie Graham. Spiritual Sunday with this interestingly formatted and philosophical poem. #poemaday365

Day 263. 9/20/25. “Illuminated”. Song lyric Saturday with this metal track by the band Vintersea. Only the real ones will make it to the 5 minute mark of the track. #poemaday365

Day 262. 9/19/25. “III”. Leslie Scalapino. Interesting prose-structured poem by this Bay Area poet. #poemaday365

Day 261. 9/18/25. “A Lady Dressed By Youth”. Duchess of Newcastle Margaret Cavendish. #TBT approx. 1653 #poemaday365

Day 260. 9/17/25. “[Like birches, ....]”. Allison Blevins. #poemaday365

Day 259. 9/16/25. “So Grateful I Turn To Art”. Jennifer Nelson. According to the poet, she “saw colors differently after living a few years in the Wisconsin prairie. This began to intersect with my lifelong confusion of nature with technology.” #poemaday365

Day 258. 9/15/25. “Turnpike”. #poemaday365

Day 257. 9/14/25. “If I Were Another”. Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah. Spiritual Sunday with this poems that combines music and identity. #poemaday365

Day 256. 9/13/25. “How Soon Is Now?”. Song lyric Saturday with this epic Smiths’ track. #poemaday365

Day 255. “Unfurl”. Katie Richards. This poem comes from a very personal place for the poet. As she asks, “how much emotional intensity can be pressed into a poem built from short couplets and plainspoken language?” #poemaday365

Day 254. 9/11/25. “Separate Dwelling”. David Bromwich. #TBT 1975. #poemaday365

Day 253. 9/10/25. “Time”. Janet Norris Bangs. #poemaday365

Day 252. 9/9/25. “Citizen”. Roberto Tejada. Inspired by the photo: “Waiting for the movie to open, Sunday afternoon, Pharr, Texas, February, 1939”, by Russell Lee. The poet has a very interesting explanation of the connection - worth a look: spare.poems.com/poem/citizen/ #poemaday365

Day 251. 9/8/25. “When was the last time . . “. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 250. 9/7/25. “In Heaven”. Stephen Crane. Spiritual Sunday with this poem that contains a strong moral. #poemaday365

Day 249. 9/6/25. “Mediocrity”. Song lyric Saturday with this track by Bad Religion. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 248. 9/5/25. “The Guardian Angel of the Private Life”. Jorie Graham. #poemaday365

Day 247. 9/4/25. “Guest Room”. George Oppen. #TBT 1965. #poemaday365

Day 246. 9/3/25. “The last day on earth”. Rewa Zeinati. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 245. 9/2/25. “In My Natural Habitat.” Hedgie Choi. #poemaday365

Day 244. 9/1/25. “Wanderlust, Or Is It”. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 243. 8/31/25. “The Only Miracle”. Chet’la Sebree. This poem came about because the poet “couldn’t parse whether a friend said they wanted to be a somm, as in sommelier, or a psalm. . . but the poem shifted into questions of miracles and how the body, unto itself, can be a miracle.” #poemaday365

Day 242. 8/30/25. “Baptized”. Song lyric Saturday with this 2004 track by Lenny Kravitz. #poemaday365