From AWAD.

A.Word.A.Day — palinode: palinode (PAL-uh-noad) noun

A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem.

Form this week will come to us from the A Word a Day email list, as they are focusing on poetic form (and good for them):

A.Word.A.Day — epithalamionepithalamion (ep-uh-thuh-LAY-mee-on), also epithalamium, noun

A poem or song in honor of a bride and bridegroom.

[From Greek epi- (upon) + thalamus (bridal chamber).]

Form this week will come to us from the A Word a Day email list, as they are focusing on poetic form (and good for them):

A.Word.A.Day — epithalamionepithalamion (ep-uh-thuh-LAY-mee-on), also epithalamium, noun

A poem or song in honor of a bride and bridegroom.

[From Greek epi- (upon) + thalamus (bridal chamber).]

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 — Of taking long walks it has been said that a person can walk off anything. Here David Mason hikes a mountain in his home state, Colorado, and steps away from an undisclosed personal loss into another state, one of healing.

In the Mushroom Summer

Colorado turns Kyoto in a shower,
mist in the pines so thick the crows delight
(or seem to), winging in obscurity.
The ineffectual panic of a squirrel
who chattered at my passing gave me pause
to watch his Ponderosa come and go – 
long needles scratching cloud. I’d summited
but knew it only by the wildflower meadow,
the muted harebells, paintbrush, gentian,
scattered among the locoweed and sage.
Today my grief abated like water soaking
underground, its scar a little path
of twigs and needles winding ahead of me
downhill to the next bend. Today I let
the rain soak through my shirt and was unharmed.

Reprinted by permission from “The Hudson Review,” Vol. LIX, No. 2 (Summer 2006). Copyright (c) 2006 by David Mason. This weekly column is supported by The Poetry Foundation, The Library of Congress, and the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This column does not accept unsolicited poetry.

Nothing from me. Today a poem from Tiff Holland

its good enough
for me and you.

simply was
by far the mightiest of
the I

outside judge

, had it ever been cleaned out?
a mile before.

view the truth
dawn upon Althea

and
the other great players.

Wikipedia says of the Spoem:

Spoetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: are “spam poems” written using only the subject lines from spam e-mail

…but I prefer to expand the definition a bit allowing myself full use of the spam message to become a “found poem” that I can manipulate (a bit) to become something elegant, even beautiful. Most of these spam messages are being created by computers, grabbing lines of text from the internet and cramming them together, then blasting them into the universe. So crammed, they are sometimes lovely. Often ugly. Sometimes so ugly they are lovely.