Poem-A-Day: Scandal by Lola Ridge

March 2, 2014 Scandal by Lola Ridge     Aren't there bigger things to talk about  Than a window in Greenwich Village  And hyacinths sprouting  Like little puce poems out of a sick soul?  Some cosmic hearsay-- As to whom--it can't be Mars! put the moon--that way....  Or what winds do to canyons  Under the tall stars...  Or even  How that old roué, Neptune,  Cranes over his bald-head moons  At the twinkling heel of a sky-scraper.       Today's poem is in the public domain. About This Poem  "Scandal" was published in Lola Ridge's second volume, Sun-up: And Other Poems (B. W. Huebsch, 1920), a collection of free-verse imagist poems. Poetry by Ridge Sun-Up, and Other Poems (Nabu Press, 2013)     Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Lola Ridge was born in Dublin in 1873 and immigrated to the United States in 1907. A poet and activist, Ridge was an early advocate for women's rights, gay rights, and the rights of immigrants. Ridge published five volumes of poetry before her death in 1941. Related Poems Escape by Elinor Wylie The Wind and the Moon by George Macdonald And the Intrepid Anthurium by Pura López-Colomé __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     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.

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