Ten Poems about Cricket

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Store guns and ammunition first, Build forts and warlike factories, Sink bores and tanks where drought is worst, Give over time to industries. The absolute best thing children love to do is set them free after getting a glimpse into their lives.

A left handed bat. This means that the batsman is left handed. The bat can be no more left handed than a screwdriver can.Lord Kitchener – MELODISC 1321 (Aus v. MCC 1955)". 28 November 2008. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021 . Retrieved 16 April 2019– via YouTube. The Guardian Angel Of The Little Utopia Shall I move the flowers again?Shall I put them further to the leftinto the light?Win that fix it, will that arrange thething?Yellow sky. The passengersfrom Boston to Pariswatching the movie with dawncoming up like statues of honey,having partaken of champagne and steakwhile the world turned like a toy globe,those murderers of the nightgownwould understand. The only useful answer is that I have found a new audience, and I have somehow, unconsciously, and yet, calculatedly, managed to shape my work around this audience. There is something impure, something unessential, something seemingly crass about this confession. I am left wondering what else I have abandoned for America; I wonder what else I have discarded so I can be a poet in America. And how bad is this? How serious a failure is this of my art? Yet one rich smile, and we will try to bear The piercing winter frost, and winds, and darkened air.

Better to watch the streamthat flows across the floorand is made of sunlight,the forest made of shadows;better to watch the fireplacewhich is now a beach. No use; the toolboxrefuses to reveal its verbs;the rasp, the plane, the awl,revert to sullen metal. Nature Study (for Rona, Jeremy, Sam & Grace)All the lizards are asleep--perched pagodas with tiny triangular tiles,each milky lid a steamed-up window. After I published Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, people often asked me how the spiritual poetry of women differs from that of men. My answer: more imagery of houses. (The earlier poem here by Izumi Shikibu also uses the image of a house to speak of the experience of self and its boundaries.) To become the authority of one’s own household is no small thing in many women’s lives, even now, and the lives of earlier women poets are almost always marked by some fracturing with the expectations and course of ordinary life. The same is often true for men, of course, especially mystics.The amnesiacwho tunes into a new neighborhood,having misplaced the past,having thrown out someone else'scredit cards and monogrammed watch,would understand.