Today's poem:

Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be
- by Vachel Lindsay

The moon? It is a griffin's egg,
Hatching to-morrow night.
And how the little boys will watch
With shouting and delight
To see him break the shell and stretch
And creep across the sky.
The boys will laugh. The little girls,
I fear, may hide and cry.
Yet gentle will the griffin be,
Most decorous and fat,
And walk up to the milky way
And lap it like a cat.

#poetry #griffin #VachelLindsay #whimsy #imaginings #gentleness

Today's poem:

Knight-in Armour
- by A. A. Milne

Whenever I'm a shining Knight,
I buckle on my armour tight;
And then I look about for things,
Like Rushings-out, and Rescuings,
And Savings from the Dragon's Lair,
And fighting all the Dragons there.
And sometimes when our fights begin,
I think I'll let the Dragons win …
And then I think perhaps I won't,
Because they're Dragons, and I don't.

#AAMilne #poetry #knights #childhood #imaginings #play

Today's poem:

Out Of Pompeii
- by William Wilfred Campbell

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/754520087229267968/out-of-pompeii?source=share

#pompeii #eruption #vesuvius #sleep #love #imaginings #peace #death #poetry #WilliamWilfredCampbell

Today's poem:

The Old Lizard
- by Federico Garcia Lorca

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/737215690557308928/the-old-lizard?source=share

#poetry #FedericoGarciaLorca #lizard #encounter #imaginings #metaphor

Today's poem:

Tenebris
- by Angelina Weld Grimké

There is a tree, by day,
That, at night,
Has a shadow,
A hand huge and black,
With fingers long and black.
All through the dark,
Against the white man’s house,
In the little wind,
The black hand plucks and plucks
At the bricks.
The bricks are the colour of blood and very small.
Is it a black hand,
Or is it a shadow?

#shadow #imaginings #AngelaWeldGrimke #race #poetry #history #injustice

Today's poem:

Granada
- by Nizar Qabbani

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/714734582521610240/granada?source=share

#poetry #NizarQabbani #alhambra #attraction #imaginings #guide