Today is the birthday of poet William Carlos Williams…
In celebration here are five of our favorite William Carlos Williams poems :
[ Books by William Carlos Williams ]
TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY
William Carlos Williams
Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze.
Gaining and failing
they are buffetted
by a dark wind–
But what?
On harsh weedstalks
the flock has rested,
the snow
is covered with broken
seedhusks
and the wind tempered
by a shrill
piping of plenty.
SOUR GRAPES by William Carlos Williams.
Available as a FREE ebook for Kindle
or in a variety of other formats via Project Gutenberg…
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