Lisel Mueller Long Poems

  • 1.
    The laughter of women sets fire
    to the Halls of Injustice
    and the false evidence burns
    to a beautiful white lightness
    ...
  • 2.
    The moon lies on the river
    like a drop of oil.
    The children come to the banks to be healed
    of their wounds and bruises.
    ...
  • 3.
    Doctor, you say there are no haloes
    around the streetlights in Paris
    and what I see is an aberration
    caused by old age, an affliction.
    ...
  • 4.
    What happened is, we grew lonely
    living among the things,
    so we gave the clock a face,
    the chair a back,
    ...
  • 5.
    In 1936, a child
    in Hitler's Germany,
    what did I know about the war in Spain?
    Andalusia was a tango
    ...
  • 6.
    If an inaudible whistle
    blown between our lips
    can send him home to us,
    then silence is perhaps
    ...
Total 6 Long Poems by Lisel Mueller

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Vain Hope
 by Ernest Dowson

Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,
Though late it be, though lily-time be past,
Though all the summer skies be overcast,
Haply I will go down to her, some day,
And cast my rests of life before her feet,
That she may have her will of me, being so sweet
And none gainsay!

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