Poetry Tuesdays: "Blackberries" by Yusef Komunyakaa

Welcome to Inkweb! Today is Poetry Tuesday, when I post cool poetry that I have not written myself. Disclaimer: this does not belong to me.

This week, I have chosen a work by Yusef Komunyakaa, called Blackberries. Enjoy.

Poetry Tuesdays: "On A Play Twice Seen" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

So, I've decided to make a change to the poetry schedule here on the blog. Thursdays, I will still post my own compositions, but on Tuesdays, I will post other poems that I think noteworthy. This week I am posting one by a great author of the 20th century, F. Scott Fitzgerald, called "On a Play Twice Seen":

On A Play Twice Seen

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here in the figured dark I watch once more;

There with the curtain rolls a year away,

A year of years--there was an idle day

Of ours, when happy endings didn't bore

Our unfermented souls, and rocks held ore:

Your little face beside me, wide-eyed, gay,

Smiled its own repertoire, while the poor play

Reached me as a faint ripple reaches shore.

Yawning and wondering an evening through

I watch alone--and chatterings of course

Spoil the one scene which somehow did have charms;

You wept a bit, and I grew sad for you

Right there, where Mr. X defends divorce

And What's-Her-Name falls fainting in her arms.

Tuesday Poems - The Purple Man

There he goes, the purple man
He walks along the path
There he goes, the silent man
He passes without glance.

There he goes, the purple man
He's walking through the woods