Here are some fall poems selected by the editors at the Poetry Foundation's terrific website. You can also do a search for more - the search function is excellent; save them in the feature 'my favorite poetry. And finally, if you are supposed to be writing but are stuck, some ways to unblock. 
Officially under-the-weather. Back on Wednesday. If you cannot fall asleep for a nap or at night, you could visit the much-improved Keats-Shelley House (in Rome) website as we are today. Those Romantic poets can make having a fever seem (sort of) welcome. xo/GGCM
If Tuesday is any indication, this week is already lost to us. We'll try to regain some sense of optimism...soon. Meanwhile, the Poetry Foundation is a favorite site & their Children's Poetry section is new-to-GGCM but looks quite good. Cultivating a love of poetry cannot begin too soon.
Quick few suggestions for a Saturday afternoon (or evening, hi friends in Britain & beyond)/Sunday: 
Winter storm on its unwelcome way. Winter soup cooking; here are some recipes from Jamie Oliver. And here is the Poetry Foundation's winter poem selection. (Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward by Gordon Parks/LIFE)
Forgive our haste...a busy day but we will return. Meanwhile, this purplish-blue flower-jewel (by Gertrud K.) inspires thoughts of spring renewal, even on a morning when it seems winter is trying to make a return. Begone winter! 
GG acknowledges T.S. Eliot’s birthday today. After all, he did love cats. (The musical is certainly not his fault.) The poem is especially à propos as there is a natal day at GG Central soon. 
From today's Writer's Almanac. Thank you, Garrison. (And to Maria Caterina di Perugia who made sure we saw it, just in case. She knows we are often behind with our WA listening.)It was on this day in 1920 that the 19th Amendment was formally incorporated into the U.S. Constitution. It proclaimed, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." It ended more than 70 years of struggle by the suffragist movement.
It had passed through the House and Senate. At first, it looked like the amendment was not going to make it. And then, a 24-year-old legislator from Tennessee, Harry Burn, decided to vote for the amendment at the last minute because his mother wanted him to. And Tennessee became the 36th state to approve suffrage for women.
They sent the certified record of the Tennessee vote to Washington, D.C., and it arrived on August 26, 1920. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed the proclamation that morning at 8 a.m. at his home. There was no ceremony of any kind, and no photographers were there to capture the moment. And none of the leaders of the woman suffrage movement were present to see him do it. Colby just finished his cup of coffee and signed the document with a regular, steel pen. Then he said, "I turn to the women of America and say: 'You may now fire when you are ready. You have been enfranchised.'
Check out our new lunar widget! GG is too fond of this nonsense at times, but we're so impressed with people who can actually write these things. We feel like geniuses for just copying the code into the template. The moon is a recurring theme at GG Central. 
We are so sorry...and sorrier still that we could not see eye-to-eye on matters political, quite often, especially of late. Still, he was a poet of immense talent & courage; he took his duty to his fellow exiles very seriously. No poetry about or connected to Palestine & Israel--especially with regard to Jerusalem & the Galilee (where he was born)--can be discussed without Darwish's profound contribution. Below is the statement on his website today. More as the funeral approaches; he will be buried in Ramallah. Ha'aretz newspaper has published an obituary that can be accessed here. Poet Carolyn Forché's anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness included Darwish in the War in the Middle East section, along with Adonis, Amichai, & others. in the presence of Absence
Mahmoud Darwish has quietly left us on Saturday 9 August 2008 after 67 years of a life jumping from one peak to another, rising higher every time, transcending his own successes. He was a beautiful human being, able to see what no one else can see: in life, politics, and even people, expressing his visions in a language that seems to be made only for him to write with. When he decided to take on this difficult surgery we thought that he can beat death, like he did several times before… but he, it seems, with his prophetic insight, could clearly see his “ghost coming from afar”.
He wanted to surprise death rather than wait for the “time bomb” that was his artery to explode unannounced… he went prepared, as he always is, leaving us behind to “nurture hope”.
No more procrastinating....the July/August issue of Poets & Writers magazine is still on the stands if you don't subscribe. [If you do, Giulia & her editor cannot urge you strongly enough: go through the submission guideline pages & highlight those that pertain to you. Do it!]