"I Am Like A Leaf" by Yone Noguchi

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend Support Poem-a-Day December 28, 2019   I Am Like A Leaf   Yone Noguchi

The silence is broken: into the nature    My soul sails out,  Carrying the song of life on his brow,    To meet the flowers and birds. When my heart returns in the solitude,     She is very sad, Looking back on the dead passions   Lying on Love's ruin.  I am like a leaf    Hanging over hope and despair,  Which trembles and joins    The world's imagination and ghost.             This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on December 28, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. About this Poem   "I Am Like A Leaf" was originally published in Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi (The Four Seas Company, 1921).   Yone Noguchi, the first Japanese-born writer to publish poetry in English, was born in 1875 in Tsushima. He lived and worked in San Francisco, and was the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. He died Toyooka-mura on July 13, 1947. Poetry by Noguchi   Japanese Hokkus  (Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018) "The Leaves" by Deborah Digges "Fall Leaves Fall" by Emily Brontë "Blankets of Bark" by Sherwin Bitsui December Guest Editor: Paisley Rekdal   Thanks to Paisley Rekdal, author of Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Rekdal about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year.  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   Unsubscribe here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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