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God Says Yes to MeBy Kaylin Huaght I asked God if it was okay to be melodramaticand she said yesI asked her if it was okay to be shortand she said it sure isI asked her if I could wear nail polishor not wear nail polishand she said honeyshe cal
The Cure of Troy by Seamus HeaneyHuman beings suffer. They torture one another. They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. History says, Don’t hope On the side of the grave,’ But then, onc
“I Am Not I”BY JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZI am not I. I am this onewalking beside me whom I do not see,whom at times I manage to visit,and whom at other times I forget;who remains calm and silent while I talk,and forgives, gently, when
I want to age like sea glassBy Bernadette NollI want to age like sea glass. Smoothed by tides, not broken. I want the currents of life to toss me around, shake me up and leave me feeling washed clean. I want my hard edges to soften as the years
For a Dead Kitten by Sara Henderson HayPut the rubber mouse away,Pick the spools up from the floor,What was velvet shod, and gay,Will not want them, any more.What was warm, is strangely cold.Whence dissolved the little breath?How could thi
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer BY WALT WHITMANWhen I heard the learn’d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,When I sitting hear
The Mad Gardener’s Songby Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898)He thought he saw an ElephantThat practised on a fife:He looked again, and found it wasA letter from his wife."At length I realise," he said,"The bitternes
What I Learned From My MotherBY JULIA KASDORFI learned from my mother how to lovethe living, to have plenty of vases on handin case you have to rush to the hospitalwith peonies cut from the lawn, black antsstill stuck to the buds. I learned to
Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman(excerpts)1.Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-for
Those Winter Sundays BY ROBERT HAYDENSundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
"Dust"BY DORIANNE LAUXSomeone spoke to me last night,told me the truth. Just a few words,but I recognized it.I knew I should make myself get up,write it down, but it was late,and I was exhausted from workingall day in the garden, moving rocks.N
"The White Knight's Song" by Lewis Carroll`I’ll tell thee everything I can;There’s little to relate.I saw an aged aged man,A-sitting on a gate.“Who are you, aged man?’ I said.“and how is it you live?”And his answer trickled through my headLike
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=40285“DHARMA” BY BILLY COLLINSThe way the dog trots out the front doorevery morningwithout a hat or an umbrella,without any moneyor the keys to her doghousenever fails to fill the
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgeeThe Cremation of Sam McGeeBY ROBERT W. SERVICEThere are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret tales
"What if a much of a which of a wind" e. e. cummings what if a much of a which of a windgives the truth to summer's lie;bloodies with dizzying leaves the sunand yanks immortal stars awry?Blow king to beggar and queen to seem(blow friend to
The ListenersBY WALTER DE LA MARE‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door;And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor:And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above
https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/whiteKnightSong.html"The White Knight's Song" by Lewis Carrol`I’ll tell thee everything I can;There’s little to relate.I saw an aged aged man,A-sitting on a gate.“Who are you, aged man?
The BagelI stopped to pick up the bagelrolling away in the wind,annoyed with myselffor having dropped itas if it were a portent.Faster and faster it rolled,with me running after itbent low, gritting my teeth,and I found myself doubled overand r
You can find the full text of the poem below, and by visiting: https://poets.org/poem/waking“The Waking” by Theodore RoethkeI wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I ha
"People Like Us" by Robert BlyThere are more like us. All over the worldthere are confused people, who can’t rememberThe name of their dog when they wake up, and peopleWho love God but can’t remember whereHe was when they went to sleep. It’sAll
Here is a link to this poem: https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/banneker/Here is the text of this poem:BannekerBy Rita DoveWhat did he do except lieunder a pear tree, wrapped ina great cloak, and meditateon the heavenly bodies?Venerable, the g
Jason Merritt reads the poem "What the Dog Perhaps Hears" by Lisel Mueller and muses on why he loves this poem and what it means to educators/parents/ministers.Here is the text of this poem: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/~sekuler/senpro/topic_1_
https://allpoetry.com/Last-Night-As-I-Was-SleepingHere is the text of this week's poem:“Last Night As I Was Sleeping” By Antonio Machado Last night as I was sleeping,I dreamt—marvelous error!—that a spring was breakingout in my heart.I said:
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