Poems of the Senses – Engaging the Senses Foundation

Poems of the Senses

Intuition

Dickinson, Emily. You’ll know it — as you know tis Noon

Harjo, Joy. Remember

Hirshfield, Jane. Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World

Howell, Dan. Piano

Ryan, Kay. A Certain Kind of Eden

Seeing

Angelou, Maya. Touched by an Angel

Donne, John. The Dream

Patterson, Juliet. Draft of a Landscape

Prufer, Kevin. After You Have Vanished

Xu, Wendy. Looking at My Father

Hearing

Castellanos, Rosario. Appeal to the Solitary One

Gibran, Khalil. On Talking

Heaney, Seamus. A Call

Milosz, Czeslaw. Dedication

Smelling

Atwood, Margaret. Postcard

Blake, William. Eternity

Doty, Mark. The Ancient World

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Wild Dreams of a New Beginning

Gluck, Louise. Nostos

Jennings, Elizabeth. In a Garden

William Carlos, Williams. Smell!

Tasting

Abani, Chris. White Egret

Harjo, Joy. Perhaps the World Ends Here

Heaney, Seamus. Oysters

Matthews, William. Onions

Rekdal, Paisley. Psalm

William, Carlos Williams. This Is Just To Say

Touching

Amos, Holly. We Have No Choice in the Bodies that Made Us

Dunn, Stephen. The Kiss

Gregg, Linda. We Manage Most When We Manage Small

Lopate, Philip. The Ecstasy

Sexton, Anne. The Touch

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