{"id":9989,"date":"2023-03-24T02:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T02:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2023-03-24T02:38:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T02:38:37","slug":"on-the-last-day-by-george-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/on-the-last-day-by-george-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Last Day by George Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"On<\/h2>\n

On the Last Day<\/span><\/h2>\n

by George Moore<\/span><\/p>\n

after Jo\u00e3o Cabral de Melo Neto<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

On the last day of the world
\n<\/span>I\u2019ll walk the dog along the shore<\/span><\/p>\n

and we\u2019ll notice the little things
\n<\/span>grains of sand glistening in the moonlight<\/span><\/p>\n

all the smells he knows so well
\n<\/span>and we\u2019ll not worry about Columbus<\/span><\/p>\n

misreading the roundness of the world
\n<\/span>or Cortez the worship of horses<\/span><\/p>\n

or Khan where to hide himself
\n<\/span>when the world is gone<\/span><\/p>\n

Something will be going on
\n<\/span>somewhere<\/span><\/p>\n

and we\u2019ll feast in the honor of mornings
\n<\/span>with the traditional toast and jam<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

George Moore\u2019s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, Arc<\/em> and Stand<\/em>. His recent collections are Children\u2019s Drawings of the Universe<\/em> (Salmon Poetry 2015) and Saint Agnes Outside the Walls<\/em> (FutureCycle 2016). A finalist for The National Poetry Series and nominated for eight Pushcart Prizes, he has taught literature and writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and now lives on the south shore of Nova Scotia. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Moore\u2019s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, Arc and Stand. His recent collections are Children\u2019s Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry 2015) and Saint Agnes Outside the Walls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-poems","category-poems-about-truth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t