\u201cDefinition\u201d Poems<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.poetrybyheart.org.uk\/poems\/a-martian-sends-a-postcard-home\/<\/p>\n
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979)<\/p>\n
Craig Raine<\/p>\n
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings<\/p>\n
and some are treasured for their markings \u2013<\/p>\n
they cause the eyes to melt<\/p>\n
or the body to shriek without pain.<\/p>\n
I have never seen one fly, but<\/p>\n
sometimes they perch on the hand.<\/p>\n
Mist is when the sky is tired of flight<\/p>\n
and rests its soft machine on ground:<\/p>\n
then the world is dim and bookish<\/p>\n
like engravings under tissue paper.<\/p>\n
Rain is when the earth is television.<\/p>\n
It has the property of making colours darker.<\/p>\n
Model T is a room with the lock inside \u2013<\/p>\n
a key is turned to free the world<\/p>\n
for movement, so quick there is a film<\/p>\n
to watch for anything missed.<\/p>\n
But time is tied to the wrist<\/p>\n
or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.<\/p>\n
In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,<\/p>\n
that snores when you pick it up.<\/p>\n
If the ghost cries, they carry it<\/p>\n
to their lips and soothe it to sleep<\/p>\n
with sounds. And yet, they wake it up<\/p>\n
deliberately, by tickling with a finger.<\/p>\n
Only the young are allowed to suffer<\/p>\n
openly. Adults go to a punishment room<\/p>\n
with water but nothing to eat.<\/p>\n
They lock the door and suffer the noises<\/p>\n
alone. No one is exempt<\/p>\n
and everyone\u2019s pain has a different smell.<\/p>\n
At night, when all the colours die,<\/p>\n
they hide in pairs<\/p>\n
and read about themselves \u2013<\/p>\n
in colour, with their eyelids shut.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/42889\/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314<\/p>\n
\u201cHope\u201d is the thing with feathers – (314)<\/p>\n
BY\u00a0EMILY DICKINSON<\/p>\n
\u201cHope\u201d is the thing with feathers –<\/p>\n
That perches in the soul –<\/p>\n
And sings the tune without the words –<\/p>\n
And never stops – at all –<\/p>\n
And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –<\/p>\n
And sore must be the storm –<\/p>\n
That could abash the little Bird<\/p>\n
That kept so many warm –<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve heard it in the chillest land –<\/p>\n
And on the strangest Sea –<\/p>\n
Yet – never – in Extremity,<\/p>\n
It asked a crumb – of me.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/49909\/a-narrow-fellow-in-the-grass-1096<\/p>\n
A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)<\/p>\n
BY EMILY DICKINSON<\/p>\n
A narrow Fellow in the Grass<\/p>\n
Occasionally rides –<\/p>\n
You may have met him? Did you not<\/p>\n
His notice instant is –<\/p>\n
The Grass divides as with a Comb,<\/p>\n
A spotted Shaft is seen,<\/p>\n
And then it closes at your Feet<\/p>\n
And opens further on –<\/p>\n
He likes a Boggy Acre – <\/p>\n
A Floor too cool for Corn –<\/p>\n
But when a Boy and Barefoot<\/p>\n
I more than once at Noon<\/p>\n
Have passed I thought a Whip Lash<\/p>\n
Unbraiding in the Sun<\/p>\n
When stooping to secure it<\/p>\n
It wrinkled And was gone –<\/p>\n
Several of Nature\u2019s People<\/p>\n
I know, and they know me<\/p>\n
I feel for them a transport<\/p>\n
Of Cordiality<\/p>\n
But never met this Fellow<\/p>\n
Attended or alone<\/p>\n
Without a tighter Breathing<\/p>\n
And Zero at the Bone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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