Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the poetry category.
Unraveling “Habitation”
Filed in poetry, August 5, 2008, 3:25 am“Habitation” is a poem, written by Margaret Atwood, that I included in my previous post. (Please refer to “Wedding Anniversary” in the list of Recent Posts.) Here we will attempt to unravel its meaning in order to better appreciate it.
In the poem, Atwood tries to define marriage by starting with what it is not about. When [...]
Wedding Anniversary
Filed in poetry, July 31, 2008, 3:20 pm
I feel that I must not let the month of July go by without sharing this poem. This is the month of my 10th wedding anniversary and I’d like to commemorate it with something that captures my view of marriage at this point in my life.
Fire season
Filed in poetry, March 21, 2008, 4:13 pmSkeletal branches
Are what’s left of the Fire tree’s
Red-orange frenzy,
But it all comes back next year,
Fiery like we used to be.
