REELY'S POETRYBLOG

Isn’t the mythological Sphinx a woman? That’s what I thought, anyway. In Jared Carter’s poem by the same name, the Sphinx is an “it” — so it can’t be the pharoah Sphinx either, but whatever it is — here’s an excerpt from the poem
It lives on, and with each new day, asks
the old […]

January 9th is the birthday of English poet, Lascelles Abercrombie, who wrote The Box about war:
Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye, 
Around about the wondrous days of yore, 
They came across a kind of box 
Bound up with chains and locked with locks 
And labeled “Kindly do not touch; it’s war.” 
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It is also […]