Day 359. 12/25/25. “A Sonnet for Christmas”. F.D. Reeve. #TBT 1994. #poemaday365

Day 358. 12/24/25. “[come we know the water...]”. Sabine Huynh. Translated from French by Charlotte Mandell. #poemaday365

Day 357. 12/23/25. “13 Questions for the Next Economy”. Susan Briante. According to the poet, she ponders these ideas in this poem: “Will these recent years be known as the pre-civil war or the post-democracy? . This poem is a note tied to a rock thrown toward a window of the future.” #poemaday365

Day 356. 12/22/25. “Rainy Day”. Bert Meyers. #poemaday365

Day 355. 12/21/25. “Sonnet 21”. Immanuel of Rome. Translated from Hebrew by Yehudah Cohn. Spiritual Sunday with this sonnet that, according to the translator, “is a boastful one, which has Immanuel as a superior poet to ones mentioned in the [B]iblical ‘Book of Psalms’ . . .” #poemaday365

Day 354. 12/20/25. “Happy”. Song lyric Saturday with this 2013 track by Robert DeLong. #poemaday365

Day 353. 12/19/25. “Seeet child, do not be as wise as your parents/ प्यारे बच्चे, अपने माँ-बाप की तरह समझदार मत बनना“. Kinshuk Gupta. Translated from Hindi by Dyuti Mishra. #poemaday365

Day 352. 12/18/25. “The Wise Man”. Marx G. Sabel. #TBT 1924. #poemaday365

Day 351. 12/17/25. “Footsteps in the Dark to the Edge of Objectivity pts. 1&2”. Jzl Jmz. I am a big fan of the structure and the varied readability of this poem. #poemaday365

Day 350. 12/16/25. “Sycamore matter / Materie des Bergahorns“. Christian Lehnert. Translated from German by Richard Sieburth. The translator provides a very interesting interpretation of the poem. It is worth looking into. #poemaday365

Day 349. 12/15/25. “Essay”. Bernadette Mayer. This is an interesting and unique single-stanza poem with a lot to consider and comprehend. #poemaday365

Day 348. 12/14/25. “The Metaphysics of Your Presence”. Robert Bernard Hass. Spiritual Sunday with this poem that is a love poem about the exploration of language through language. #poemaday365

Day 347. 12/13/25. “Return to Serenity”. Song lyric Saturday with this 1992 power ballad from the band Testament. #poemaday365

Day 346. 12/12/25. “torque”. Jamie Manias. #poemaday365

Day 345. 12/11/25. “The Properly Scholarly Attitude”. Adelaide Crapsey. #TBT 1915-1916. #poemaday365

Day 344. 12/10/25. “After Turning the Clocks Back”. Jennifer Moxley. #poemaday365

Day 343. 12/9/25. “a holler hello / ymmv in Appalachia”. Bernard Clay. Interesting poem combining rad imagery, contemporary social influences and unique structure. Part of the poet’s exploration of rural and urban Kentucky life. #poemaday365

Day 342. 12/8/25. “Craft Talk”. Fargo Nissim Tbakhi. #poemaday365

Day 341. 12/7/25. “The Gentle Hill”. Salvatore Quasimodo. Spiritual Sunday with this 1954 poem. #poemaday365

Day 340. 12/6/25. “Sound Advice”. Song lyric Saturday with this 1965 teach from Elvis Presley. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 339. 12/5/25. “Spam for President”. Harryette Mullen. #poemaday365

Day 338. 12/4/25. “Self-Portrait”. Edward Hirsch. #TBT 2008. #poemaday365

Day 337. 12/3/25. “Stacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your Bones”. Gabrielle Calvocoressi. #poemaday365

Day 336. 12/2/25. “Burning Down the Waffle House”. Danny Caine. According to the poet, he’s “written a poem about Waffle House for nearly all of my poetry projects. It’s interesting to read these poems in chronological order and trace my thinking’s evolution.” #poemaday365

Day 335. 12/1/25. “Swimming Between Islands”. Charlotte Eichler. According to the poet, she “wrote the poem after reading a tweet by a man asking what women will do with their lives between the ages of 40 and 80 if they don’t become mothers.” #latepost #poemaday365

Day 334. 11/30/25. “November”. Alice Winifred Finnegan. Spiritual Sunday on this last day of November. #poemaday365

Day 333. 11/29/25. “Family Time”. Song lyric Saturday with this 2009 track by Ziggy Marley. #poemaday365

Day 332. 11/28/25. “Swimming versus Drowning”. Sihle Ntuli. According to the poet, this poem is “Drawn from my early memory of nearly drowning, . . . What emerges is not just a reckoning, but a manifesto: for those who choose life, even when the water calls.” #poemaday365

Day 331. 11/27/25. “Thanksgiving”. Kenneth Koch. #TBT 1957. #poemaday365

Day 330. 11/26/25. “The Witness”. Fanny Howe. #poemaday365

Day 329. 11/25/25. “I Dreamed a Word That Meant a Break in the Weaving”. Allyson Paty. #poemaday365

Day 328. 11/24/25. “Reflection”. Asmaa Azaizeh. Translated from Arabic by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 327. 11/23/25. “Lying Angel/El Ángel Mentiroso”. Rafael Alberti. Translated from Spanish by John Murillo. Spiritual Sunday with this piece by one of the most highly regarded Spanish poets of the 20th century. #poemaday365

Day 326. 11/22/25. “Be Good To Yourself”. Song lyric Saturday with this 1986 banger from the band Journey. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 325. 11/21/25. “...and so History Constantly Dwindles”. Carrie Hunter. #poemaday365

Day 324. 11/20/25. “Most Like an Arch This Marriage”. John Ciardi. #TBT 1958 #poemaday365

Day 323. 11/19/25. “Home Page”. Douglas Piccinnini. According to the poet, “I think ‘Home Page’ speaks to the fragmented yet continuous convoys of meaning that start and stop – are captured, The colliding facts of this poem are a microcosm of self-effacing thoughts.” #poemaday365

Day 322. 11/18/25. “The Bear”. Amie Whittemore. According to the poet, “ ‘The Bear’ arose from a dream and a conversation with a friend. I don’t remember the dream or the conversation anymore, but love that the poem has become a lasting, mysterious artifact of both.” #poemaday365

Day 321. 11/17/25. “Brain”. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 320. 11/16/25. “The Bright Invisible”. Michael Robins. Spiritual Sunday with this poem that the poet describes as, “sometimes memory or some winter trail—or, a one-sentence poem—nudges what’s impossible toward possibility, even the revival of those we’ve loved and lost.” #poemaday365

Day 319. 11/15/25. “Hard Believer”. Song lyric Saturday with this 2010 track by Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit off their release “The Big Black and the Blue”. #poemaday365

Day 318. 11/14/25. “7:28 PM: above the river the bridge  the bridge”. Abi Pollokoff. According to the poet: “ ‘7:28 PM’ is a memory and a myth. I wanted repetition to build like water lapping stone, to disintegrate against itself just as ripples do.” #poemaday365

Day 317. 11/13/25. “Evening Conversation”. Allan Johnston. #TBT 1999. #poemaday365

Day 316. 11/12/25. “Even Now After All These Years”. Heidi Seaborn. Photograph: “Heart Murmur”. Maggie Henfield. The poet describes the feeling and process of this poem, “as a flight of starlings inspired a poem . . . gathering strength, uniting in murmuration. “ #poemaday365

Day 315. 11/11/25. “A Veteran”. Reginald Gibbons. #veteransday #poemaday365

Day 314. 11/10/25. “La Brea”. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 313. 11/9/25. “Gathering of Friends, after the Fall of the Sung Dynasty”. Emily Grosholz. Spiritual Sunday. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 312. 11/8/25. “Listening”. Song lyric Saturday with this track by The Pet Shop Boys off their 2012 album “Elysium: Furthering Listening 2011-2012”. #latepost #poemaday365

Day 311. 11/7/25. “If I Cared”. Sid Ghosh. According to the poet, “Resting as a beast of burden is a privilege sometimes. Seams of dreams are laid to sleep when we stop and plow.” #poemaday365

Day 310. 11/6/25. “Gratitude”. Susan Ludvigson. #TBT 1994. #poemaday365