Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life

Robert Bly

Table of Contents

The Lion¿s Tale and Eyes (1962 ) - 6 poems

Silence
Reading the Translations of William Hung
The Grass-Headed Lion
Traveller Leaves Appomatox
Sparks of the Body
Evolution of Fish


Jumping Out of Bed (1973/1987) - 18 poems

Turtle Climbing From a Rock
Like the New Moon I Will Live My Lfe
Some November Privacy Poems
On a Moonlit Road in the North Woods
The Walnut Tree Orchard
The Hill of Hua-tzu
Chrysanthemums
After Long Busyness
Six Images for Death
A Night in December
Sleeping Faces
The Creek by the Luan House
The Magnolia Grove
Another Doing Nothing Poem
Walking in Ditch Grass
Tongues Whirling
A Doing Nothing Poem
The Poem
Looking at Cloud Banks Below the Plane Window
Two Drinking Songs

Old Man Rubbing His Eyes (1975) - 17 poems

October Frost
Writing Again
Fall Poem
Sitting in Fall Grass
Night Farmyard
Dawn at Threshing Time
Reading in Fall Rain
Insect Heads
To Live
Cornpicker Poem
Prophets
A Cricket in the Wainscoting
Digging Worms
Walking and Sitting
A Long Walk Before the Snow Began
A Dream on the Night of First Snow
A Walk




The Loon (1977) - 14 poems

The Loon
Wind
Alone
The Car
August Sun
Near Morris
Kabekona Lake
Love Poem
Winter Grass
Fall
Grass
Storm Windows
Ducks


This Tree Will be Here for a Thousand Years (1979) - 23 poems

Women We Never See Again
November Fog
Ant Heaps by the Path
Amazed by an Accumulation of Snow
Pulling a Rowboat Up Among Lake Reeds
Moving Books to a New Study
Driving My Parents Home at Christmas
After a Day of Work
Walking Where the Plows Have Been Turning
July Morning
An Empty Place
Prayer Service in an English Church
Fishing on a Lake at Night
Night of First Snow
Solitude of the Two Day Snowstorm
Frost Still in the Ground
Late Moon
A Dream of Retarded Children
Black Pony Eating Grass
The Fallen Tree
Nailing a Dock Together
Out Picking Up Corn
For My Brother, A Year After His Death


Out on the Rolling Ocean & In the Month of May (1984) - 7 poems

Ferns
Secrets
The Black Hen
Returning Poem
The Minnow Turning
Leaves on the Highway
Two People At Dawn

The Moon on the Fencepost (1988) - 8 poems

The Moon
Arriving in the North Woods
A Moon Behind a Cottonwood Tree
Driving at Night
Outhouses Near Appleton
Error While Driving
Spring
Windy Night in Summer

from The Apple Found in the Plowing (1989) & A Private Fall (1995) - 7 poems

A Private Fall
The Call Away
Sadness
Satisfaction
Living a Week Alone
Waking Up
A Windy Pasture by Moonlight

Angels of Pompeii (1991) - 3 Poems

The One Coming Closer
The Blue Cube
Orion the Hunter


Gratitude to Old Teachers (1993) - 10 poems

A Dream of Williams Carlos Williams
Poem for James Wright
Wallace Stevens¿ Letters
The Chinese Peaks
The Gaity of Form
Early Snow
An Open Rose
Words with Wallace Stevens
On the Oregon Coast
The Exhausted Bug


Holes the Crickets Have Eaten in Blankets (1997) - 11 poems

On Assategue Island
After Your Death
My Dream
December
The Bear and the Man
Lake Sebago, Maine
Holes in our Speech
Visiting a Cliff in Smaland
The Abandoned Hermit¿s Cabin
Attempting to Answer David Ignatow¿s Question
Frost and His Enemies

The Urge to Travel Long Distances (2005) - 19 poems

Singing Late at Night at Chuck and Phil¿s Farm
Spring Night
Saturday Nights in Marietta
Summer
Gnats
The Hills near Darky, Wisconsin
A Cold Rain in May
Fishing Bullheads with Louis Simpson
The Visit of Two Birds
Looking at Some Ruts a Mile From Home
What Olav Bull Said
October Maples
Floating on the Night Lake
Talk and Low Clouds
November
Farm Scenes
A Gift
Fall Night
Feeding the Horses

Turkish Pears in August and other Ramages (2007) - 6 poems

Night in the Garden
Women and Men
Krishnamurti and His Students
The Old Stone On the Mountain
¿No Begining or End¿
¿Whitman, how many hours I have loved your vowels¿

Uncollected Poems - 18 poems

Walking on the Shore in Late August
In A Boat on Big Stone Lake
The Bear¿s Tail
On the Rocks at Maui
Fall Solitude
A Moth with Black Eyes
Alone in a Blizzard
Wild Hay
Mornings of Winter
Poem in One Line
The Land on the Tip of a Hair
Poem in One Sentence
Waiting for a Ferry in Northern Europe
Looking Up at the Waterfall in Lofthus, Hardanger
Picking Mushrooms in Late Summer in the Western Half of
the Island of Runmaro with Tomas Transtromer
Doing Nothing Poem
Lying in a Boat, Troubled
On Top of a Colorado Mountain

“The most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers.”
—The New York Times

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.