The Daily Poem

Goldberry Studios

Arts Kids & Family

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F. S. Flint's "London, my beautiful"
2026/1/30 | 2 mins.
Today’s poem falls somewhere in the middle of a Venn diagram of haiku and English ode. Happy reading.

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Scott Cairns' "Idiot Psalm 12"
2026/1/28 | 4 mins.
Today’s poem is a song of (sometimes) hidden nearness. Happy reading.

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Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life"
2026/1/26 | 6 mins.
Today’s poem is a frank examination of words and their paradoxical power to create and destroy intimacy, bringing forth the deepest self or walling it off–and what is possible when we make the best use of them. Happy reading.

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Jane Taylor's "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"
2026/1/23 | 2 mins.
Today’s poem has taken on a life of its own; we return, for a moment, to its humble beginnings. Happy reading.

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Dylan Thomas' "Prologue"
2026/1/21 | 6 mins.
Today’s poem, unusual in its structure and rhyme, turned out to be more of an epilogue: Thomas composed it for inclusion in his Collected Poems, no more than a year before his death. Happy reading.

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About The Daily Poem

The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, The Daily Poem curates a broad and generous audio anthology of the best poetry ever written, read-aloud by David Kern and an assortment of various contributors. Some lite commentary is included and the shorter poems are often read twice, as time permits. The Daily Poem is presented by Goldberry Studios. dailypoempod.substack.com

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