Poem-A-Day: Yours by Daniel Hoffman

Yours by Daniel Hoffman   I am yours as the summer air at evening is Possessed by the scent of linden blossoms, As the snowcap gleams with light Lent it by the brimming moon. Without you I'd be an unleafed tree Blasted in a bleakness with no Spring. Your love is the weather of my being. What is an island without the sea? Reprinted by permission of Louisiana State University Press from Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948-2003 by Daniel Hoffman. Copyright © 2003 by Daniel Hoffman. Poetry by Hoffman  Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948-2003   Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. April 3, 2013    Daniel Hoffman wrote numerous books of poetry including, The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2009) and Makes You Stop and Think: Sonnets (George Braziller, 2005). Hoffman served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1973 to 1974 (the appointment now called the Poet Laureate) and was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He died on March 30, 2013 in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was 89.   Photo credit:  Elizabeth McFarland   Related Poems Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lullaby by W.H. Auden It's all I have to bring today (26) by Emily Dickinson

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