Here is a smattering of great poems written by other people:<\/p>\n

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Robert Hass <\/a>is one of my favorite living poets. He was the Poet Laureate of the U.S. in the late 90’s, and this collection won a Pulitzer. Not bad.<\/p>\n

ROBERT HASS – ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE’S POEMS<\/p>\n

In one version of the legend the sirens couldn’t sing.
\nIt was only a sailor’s story that they could.
\nSo Odysseus, lashed to the mast, was harrowed
\nBy a music that he didn’t hear — plungings of the sea,
\nWind-sheer, the off-shore hunger of the birds —
\nAnd the mute women gathering kelp for garden mulch,
\nSeeing him strain against the cordage, seeing
\nthe awful longing in his eyes, are changed forever
\nOn their rocky waste of island by their imagination
\nOf his imagination of the song they didn’t sing.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Kate Hall <\/a>was my favorite Canadian contribution to the Griffin nominees in 2010. This poem is great. Plus she’s Canadian!<\/p>\n

\u00a0KATE HALL – THE LOST-AND-FOUND BOX<\/p>\n

We are waiting for the claimants to come. You would like to
\nkeep the purple umbrella. I would like to keep the orange
\ntree. We’re both hoping no one will claim the blue beat-up
\ndictionary. The dead won’t give anything away. They care-
\nfully pick through the big pile of junky objects while we
\ncrouch reverently in front of it. A crowd is fighting over the
\nmorning star and the evening star, but there’s only one star
\nin the box. It’s stretched thin between them. Fault lines are
\nemerging. People approach from every possible angle.
\nSecretly, we’re hoping for disaster – a chaotic free-for-all so
\nwe can make off with as much as our arms can hold. At the
\ndoor, George Herbert describes an orange tree to the admis-
\nsion clerk. As Herbert glances around, I step in front of it and
\nwave my arms like branches. I feel a little bad because he
\nwants it for God, and I just want it for myself.<\/p>\n

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John Glenday<\/a> was also a 2010 Griffin finalist (international). He lives in Scotland and works as an Addictions Counsellor. Isn’t that great? He’s also been to The Banff\u00a0Centre. In fact, it was a google search of his name that led me here in the first place. Grain<\/span> was one of my favorite collections in the last few years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

JOHN GLENDAY – THE RIVER<\/p>\n

This is my formula for the fall of things:
\nwe come to a river we always knew we’d have to cross.
\nIt ferries the twilight down through fieldworks<\/p>\n

of corn and half-blown sunflowers.
\nThe only sounds, one lost cicada calling to itself
\nand the piping of a bird that will never have a name.<\/p>\n

Now tell me there is a pause
\nwhere we know there should be an end;
\nthen tell me you too imagined it this way<\/p>\n

with our shadows never quite touching the river
\nand the river never quite reaching the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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