30 poems for Sunday.
A tasting menu to sit, sip, savour, feast. Bonus points for waking up late.
BREAKFAST IN BED
Don’t Hesitate by Mary Oliver
[You can read it here]A Miracle for Breakfast by Elizabeth Bishop [You can read it here]
The Guest House by Rumi
[You can read it here]The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider [You can read it here]
Happiness by Raymond Carver
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BOTTOMLESS BRUNCH
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story by Gwendolyn Brooks
[You can read it here]Love After Love by Derek Walcott
[You can read it here]Ambition by Gary Soto
[You can read it here]Jerry Wants to Argue About the Existentialists Again by Leslie Sainz
[You can read it here]What They Gon Say When by CM Burroughs [You can read it here]
Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo [You can read it here]
Mothers by Nikki Giovanni
[You can read it here]Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real? by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
[You can read it here]Paper People by Harry Baker
[ You can read it here]Sandwiches by Rachel Long
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SIDES
Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope
[You can read it here]Wild nights - Wild nights! By Emily Dickinson [You can read it here]
Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost [You can read it here]
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
[You can read it here]#INSPIRATIONALPOEM by Brian Bilson
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AFTERNOON TEA
Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun by William Shakespeare
[You can read it here]Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth [You can read it here]
To His Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne
[You can read it here]Blossom by Liz Berry
[You can read it here]To A Stranger by Michael Conley
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JAZZ BAR
Ode to Patrick Swayze by Tishani Doshi
[You can read it here]Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano for A Moment by William J. Harris
[You can read it here]“What do Women Want?” by Kim Addonizio [You can read it here]
Origins of the Fire Emoji by Enheduanna (translated by Jessica Wood)
[You can read it here]One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII by Pablo Neruda [You can read it here]