“From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee

February 18, 2024

“From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee

The text “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43012/from-blossoms

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4 responses to ““From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee”

Anonymous

February 19, 2024 at 10:01 am

Love this one!

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  February 19, 2024 at 10:16 am
  
  So good to hear!
  
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dalechamp

February 23, 2024 at 10:50 pm

I wrote an erotic poem after hearing this one! I named it “From Exhaustion.”

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1. Sher Schwartz
  
  February 23, 2024 at 10:51 pm
  
  Wow! What an inspiration!
  
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“I’m a retired Humanities professor, published essayist, poet, painter, singer, and old-time fiddle musician living on an historic two-hundred-acre farm in Eastern Oregon. I plant gardens for pollinators and revel in insects, bird dogs, donkeys, goats, cats, and American fantail and roller pigeons. My lyric landscapes are oak savannah, prairie, and riparian. Writing poetry gives me a way to express and question the rhythms I hear. My chapbook The Beautiful One’s Ark (2024) is available through The Poetry Box and online bookstores. Sher Poetry celebrates poetry as an oral language art. Each week I’ll share a poem from some of my work or from that of other poets who I love to hear.