Lisel Mueller White Poems

  • 1.
    Jenny, your mind commands
    kingdoms of black and white:
    you shoulder the crow on your left,
    the snowbird on your right;
    ...
  • 2.
    Our trees are aspens, but people
    mistake them for birches;
    they think of us as characters
    in a Russian novel, Kitty and Levin
    ...
  • 3.
    The laughter of women sets fire
    to the Halls of Injustice
    and the false evidence burns
    to a beautiful white lightness
    ...
  • 4.
    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.
    ...
  • 5.
    For Linda Foster


    I
    ...
  • 6.
    Such insignificance: a glance
    at your record on the doctor's desk
    or a letter not meant for you.
    How could you have known? It's not true
    ...
  • 7.
    In 1936, a child
    in Hitler's Germany,
    what did I know about the war in Spain?
    Andalusia was a tango
    ...
  • 8.
    I. Insomnia

    The bulb at the front door burns and burns.
    If it were a white rose it would tire of blooming
    ...
Total 8 White Poems by Lisel Mueller

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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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