Poem Provenance

Another list in my endless list agenda, ladies and gents.

To my future self: hope you find something to be amused about here.

Just a list of poems as far as I can remember.

Childhood

Kung Tuyo Na Ang Luha Mo, Aking Bayan - Amado V. Hernandez
(First ever poem in my memory. I was between 5 or 6, and I remember this little child named Jay who had this wide-eyed stunned look every time my uncle does a dramatic recitation of the poem just for fun. The adults find watching Jay looking in awe or petrified (?), entertaining)

[I wandered lonely as a Cloud] - William Wordsworth
(The only poem I remember from grade school.)

Pre Saturn Return

Kitang Dalawa - Amado V. Hernandez
Quattrocento - Margaret Atwood
(formative, started enjoying reading poems after this)
Variation on the Word Sleep - Margaret Atwood
On Joy - Taije Silverman
Forgetfulness - Billy Collins
Confessions(X.XXVII) - Augustine
Night Poem - Margaret Atwood
Scheherazade - Richard Siken
Out of Touch Screen - Noah Eli Gordon
Saying Your Names - Richard Siken
Seven White Butterflies - Mary Oliver
Lunch Poems - Frank O'Hara
Meditation At Lagunitas - Robert Hass

Post Saturn Return

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”― Emily Dickinson

Aesthetic force / Makapangyarihang Ganda. A switch got flipped in my brain and I started enjoying poems the same way I enjoy art or music. Sometimes it’s a subtle joy, sometimes it knocks me out.

Paradoxes & Oxymorons - John Ashbery
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name - John Ashbery
Ashfall - Conchitina R. Cruz
I Remember - Joe Brainard
Love - Alex Dimitrov
Peanut Butter - Eileen Miles
Postcard - Margaret Atwood
blessing the boats - Lucille Clifton
Having A Coke With You - Frank O'Hara
Having Already Walked Out On Everyone I Ever Said I Loved - Hera Lindsay Bird
Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. - Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Tomorrow is a Place - Sana Wani
Love Poem to an Avocado from a Tomato - Yuni Thomas
God's Work - Anne Carson
On Distance - Paige Lewis
i love you to the moon & - Chen Chen
Rain - Raymond Carver
Dulzura - Sandra Cisneros
Pavlov Was the Son of a Priest - Paige Lewis
This Is Just To Say - William Carlos Williams
Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem - Matthew Olzmann
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love - Anne Carson
The Poem - Franz Wright
Physical Therapy - Franny Choi
Don't Hesitate - Mary Oliver
OK FERN - Maureen N. Mclane (My fern and poetry obsession venn diagram intersects here)
Coming and Going - by PIERRE MARTORY, TRANSLATED BY JOHN ASHBERY
Asking about you - Eloise Klein Healy