Springtime is the season of renewal, but it can also be a season of ambivalence. After all, for something to be made new and fresh, it first has to have gotten old and worn. Perhaps this is why some ...

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It’s easy to think of Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) as a caricature of her own extremes: morbid and (as other of her poems we have run in the Sun suggest) maybe a little hysterical, certainly strange ...

In springtime, some people grow misty-eyed with allergies to pollen. The poet Lynne McMahon greets the season gladly, but with the recognition of the hay fever sufferer's fate at this coming time of ...

While lingering longer until after dinner. Melting ice and snow trickle to sewers And slosh around in drains. Icicles hanging from eaves snap and crackle As they crash to the ground. Soon green infant ...

To her whose birth and being Touch summer out of spring, These roses, reaching forward From May to June, I bring. To her whose fragrant friendship Sweetens the life I live, These flowers, Love’s ...

The letter poem, or epistle, is personal, addressed to a specific individual at a particular point in time. It is a conversation overheard. What could be more intimate than a daughter’s sharing with ...