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Anonymous asked:

favourite poems about the forest?

elucipher-deactivated20151112 answered:

edward thomas, “lights out”: i must enter, and leave, alone, / i know not how.
gabriele d’annunzio, “the rain in the pinewood”: rain falls on your black eyelashes / so that you seem to weep / but from pleasure
evie shockley, “where you are planted”: we settle into still pools of humidity, moss- / dark, beneath live oaks
amy gerstler, “bon courage”: a forest appears / to a young girl one morning as she combs / the dreams out of her hair.
richard levine, “in a blue wood”: the faceless couple in van gogh’s blue wood, is walking / where there is no path
siegfried sassoon, “dream-forest”: where sunshine flecks the green, / through towering woods my way / goes winding all the day.
robert frost, “stopping by woods on a snowy evening”: and miles to go before I sleep, / and miles to go before I sleep.
mary oliver, “sleeping in the forest” and “black oaks”: and you can’t keep me from the woods, from the tonnage / of their shoulders, and their shining green hair.
john keats, “ode to psyche”: far, far around shall those dark-cluster’d trees / fledge the wild-ridged mountains steep by steep
r.s. thomas, “forest dwellers”: who called them forth to walk / in the green light, their thoughts / on darkness?
léonie adams, “recollection of the wood”: toward that caress of the boughs a summer’s night / illimitable in fragrance and in sound.
gabriela mistral, “pine forest”: the night watches over its creatures, / except for the pine trees that never change.
kenneth rexroth, “falling leaves and early snow”: between the black pines lie narrow bands of moonlight, / glimmering with floating snow.
william carlos williams, “epitaph”
h.d., “the helmsman”: we forgot—we worshipped, / we parted green from green
cole swensen, “five landscapes”: the trees are half air. they fissure the sky;
pablo neruda, “lost in the forest”: wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig / sang under my tongue
atsuro riley, “thicket”: for darkling green; / for thorn-surround.

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