Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life

Thomas R Smith: Thomas R. Smith is author of six books of poems, Keeping the Star, Horse of Earth, The Dark Indigo Current, Winter Hours , Waking Before Dawn, and The Foot of the Rainbow. He is a Loft Foreword Program poetry instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.

• Like the New Moon I Will Live My LifeRobert Bly Table of ContentsThe Lion’s Tale and Eyes (1962 ) - 6 poemsSilenceReading the Translations of William HungThe Grass-Headed LionTraveller Leaves AppomatoxSparks of the BodyEvolution of FishJumping Out of Bed (1973/1987) - 18 poems Turtle Climbing From a RockLike the New Moon I Will Live My LfeSome November Privacy PoemsOn a Moonlit Road in the North WoodsThe Walnut Tree OrchardThe Hill of Hua-tzuChrysanthemumsAfter Long BusynessSix Images for DeathA Night in DecemberSleeping FacesThe Creek by the Luan HouseThe Magnolia GroveAnother Doing Nothing PoemWalking in Ditch GrassTongues WhirlingA Doing Nothing PoemThe PoemLooking at Cloud Banks Below the Plane WindowTwo Drinking SongsOld Man Rubbing His Eyes (1975) - 17 poems October FrostWriting AgainFall PoemSitting in Fall GrassNight FarmyardDawn at Threshing TimeReading in Fall RainInsect HeadsTo LiveCornpicker PoemProphetsA Cricket in the WainscotingDigging WormsWalking and Sitting A Long Walk Before the Snow BeganA Dream on the Night of First SnowA WalkThe Loon (1977) - 14 poemsThe LoonWindAloneThe CarAugust SunNear MorrisKabekona LakeLove PoemWinter GrassFallGrassStorm WindowsDucksThis Tree Will be Here for a Thousand Years (1979) - 23 poems Women We Never See AgainNovember FogAnt Heaps by the PathAmazed by an Accumulation of SnowPulling a Rowboat Up Among Lake ReedsMoving Books to a New StudyDriving My Parents Home at ChristmasAfter a Day of WorkWalking Where the Plows Have Been TurningJuly MorningAn Empty PlacePrayer Service in an English ChurchFishing on a Lake at NightNight of First SnowSolitude of the Two Day SnowstormFrost Still in the GroundLate MoonA Dream of Retarded ChildrenBlack Pony Eating GrassThe Fallen TreeNailing a Dock TogetherOut Picking Up CornFor My Brother, A Year After His DeathOut on the Rolling Ocean & In the Month of May (1984) - 7 poemsFernsSecretsThe Black HenReturning PoemThe Minnow Turning Leaves on the HighwayTwo People At DawnThe Moon on the Fencepost (1988) - 8 poemsThe MoonArriving in the North WoodsA Moon Behind a Cottonwood TreeDriving at NightOuthouses Near AppletonError While DrivingSpringWindy Night in Summerfrom The Apple Found in the Plowing (1989) & A Private Fall (1995) - 7 poemsA Private FallThe Call AwaySadnessSatisfactionLiving a Week AloneWaking UpA Windy Pasture by MoonlightAngels of Pompeii (1991) - 3 PoemsThe One Coming CloserThe Blue CubeOrion the HunterGratitude to Old Teachers (1993) - 10 poemsA Dream of Williams Carlos WilliamsPoem for James WrightWallace Stevens’ LettersThe Chinese PeaksThe Gaity of FormEarly SnowAn Open RoseWords with Wallace StevensOn the Oregon CoastThe Exhausted BugHoles the Crickets Have Eaten in Blankets (1997) - 11 poemsOn Assategue IslandAfter Your Death My DreamDecemberThe Bear and the ManLake Sebago, MaineHoles in our SpeechVisiting a Cliff in SmalandThe Abandoned Hermit’s CabinAttempting to Answer David Ignatow’s QuestionFrost and His EnemiesThe Urge to Travel Long Distances (2005) - 19 poems Singing Late at Night at Chuck and Phil’s FarmSpring NightSaturday Nights in MariettaSummerGnatsThe Hills near Darky, WisconsinA Cold Rain in MayFishing Bullheads with Louis SimpsonThe Visit of Two BirdsLooking at Some Ruts a Mile From Home What Olav Bull SaidOctober MaplesFloating on the Night LakeTalk and Low CloudsNovemberFarm ScenesA GiftFall NightFeeding the HorsesTurkish Pears in August and other Ramages (2007) - 6 poemsNight in the GardenWomen and MenKrishnamurti and His StudentsThe Old Stone On the Mountain“No Begining or End”“Whitman, how many hours I have loved your vowels”Uncollected Poems - 18 poemsWalking on the Shore in Late AugustIn A Boat on Big Stone LakeThe Bear’s Tail On the Rocks at Maui Fall SolitudeA Moth with Black EyesAlone in a BlizzardWild HayMornings of WinterPoem in One LineThe Land on the Tip of a HairPoem in One SentenceWaiting for a Ferry in Northern EuropeLooking Up at the Waterfall in Lofthus, HardangerPicking Mushrooms in Late Summer in the Western Half ofthe Island of Runmaro with Tomas TranstromerDoing Nothing PoemLying in a Boat, TroubledOn Top of a Colorado Mountain