poetropical

poetry website of Matthew John Williams

Once more through the heifer muck
and into the brilliant cooling of the watermint beds
- Barry Macsweeny

Poems of Matthew John Williams: Promise of rain - The trees blinding the sun; Ithaca after C P Cafavy - Leave me no photographs, leave me nothing; New Year's Day - You sleep away your acid head, and I; Song for a shy boy - The boy on the street wearing long string vest; biscuit/Empire - Here the rambled hands of shipwrights, misters; Index; Biography.
African poetry: I research and maintain a list of African poetry on the Internet
Guillaume Apollinaire: New translation of Étoile - Je songe à Gaspard ce n'est certainement pas / Son vrai nom il voyage il a quitté la ville : I dream of Gaspard (not his real name) traveling; / he's left the town; New translation of Le Pont Mirabeau - Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine : Under Mirabeau Bridge runs the Seine; New translation of Les Fenêtres - Du rouge au vert tout le jaune se meurt : from red to green all yellow dies
Pocketbook: Poems: living authors, dead poets, anonymous and traditional and sometimes comments.

Prairie grasses More Leaves of Grass - new poems beginning from Whitman's Song of Myself