The maximum possibly cause Rita Dove selected to call “Sonnet in Primary Colors” a sonnet is its 14-line shape.
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Snow would be the easy way out—that softening sky like a sigh of relief at finally being allowed to yield. No dice. We stack twigs for burning in glistening patches but the rain won’t give. So we wait, breeding mood, making music of decline. We sit down in the smell of the past and rise in a light that is already leaving. We ache in secret, memorizing a gloomy line or two of German. When spring comes we promise to act the fool. Pour, rain! Sail, wind, with your cargo of zithers!
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November for Beginners by Rita Dove
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Song of the Day AUGust 28 2025
In honor of the birth of Rita Dove
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Rita Dove Commencement Address Smith College Class of 2018
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#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2025 #August28 #RitaDove #SmithCollege #PoetLaureate #Poetry #Commencement #2010s
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"#Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
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✒️ #RitaDove, African American poet, celebrates her birthday today. #Literature
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Blooming skull
PITHOS
By #RitaDove
Climb
into a jar
and live
for a while.
Chill earth.
No stars
in this stone
sky.
You have ceased
to ache.
Your spine is
a flower.
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The world is calling—soft, persistent. Can you hear it?
To be here is no small thing.
To stay, to listen, to receive what’s tender—maybe that’s the beginning.
#RitaDove #PoetryOfPresence #Lamentations #MilkOfLife #PoetryCommunity #PoeticReflections #EngagingTheSenses
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Canary
Rita Dove
1989
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#poems #poetry #ritadove #billieholiday
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While in the midst of horror we feed on beauty-and that, my love, is what sustained us. #ritadove #vintageootd
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So we wait, breeding mood, making music of decline. We sit down in the smell of the past and rise in a light that is already leaving. #ritadove
#vintagelingerie
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#RitaDove "Demeter"s Prayer to Hades"
This alone is what I wish for you: knowledge.
To understand each desire and its edge,
to know we are responsible for the lives
we change. No faith comes without cost,
no one believes without dying.
Now for the first time ...
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Another beautiful, real life so relatable poem from Rita Dove's "Playlist for the Apocalypse." I found this reading of "Euridice, Turning." onbeing.org/poetry/euryd... #poetry #blackpoets #blackhistorymonth #RitaDove
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Another one of my favorite poets. I can't get enough of her poetry #ritadove #onthebuswithrosaparks #testimonial ##africanamericanpoetry #blackhistorymonth #poetry #poem #poemaday
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Watch Dove recite "Beside the Golden Door" from her most recent book, "Playlist for the Apocolypse," from PBS News Hour's arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Thank you, Rita.
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#BlackHistoryMonth #RitaDove #CelebratePoetry #AkronProud
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From Rita Dove's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/978039...
#poem #poetry #ritadove #books #writing
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Another one of my favorite poets #ritadove #playlistfortheapocalypse #ghettolandexeunt #ritadovepoetry #africanamericanpoetry #blackhistorymonth #poemaday #poem #poetry
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Quote in post superimposed over a photo of a wildland fire with smoke.
A favorite line from Rita Dove's poem "Huddle": "A crook is just a bend in the road not yet traveled-- / he's simply waiting for the smoke to clear."
#favoritelinefridays #RitaDove #playlistfortheapocalypse #bookstagrammers
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"And the world was already old.
And I was older than I am today."
From Rita Dove's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/978039...
#poem #ritadove #poetry #books #writers
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This alone is what I wish for you: knowledge.
To understand each desire has an edge,
to know we are responsible for the lives
we change.
#RitaDove (1995) #poetry #poem
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"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine"
—#RitaDove
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