Staying Power (Jeanne Murray Walker)
Staying Power In appreciation of Maxim Gorky at the International Convention of Atheists, 1929 Like Gorky, I sometimes follow my doubts outside to the yard and question the sky, longing to have...
View ArticleIf (Rudyard Kipling)
If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;...
View ArticleCaged Bird (Maya Angelou)
Caged Bird A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks...
View ArticleKaleidoscope (Helen Wieger)
Kaleidoscope There is this beautiful deep down that is real whole beautiful like the kaleidoscope you have broken parts raw edges needs...
View ArticleAs The Ruin Falls (CS Lewis)
As The Ruin Falls All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through: I want God, you, all friends,...
View ArticleIdiot Psalms (Scott Cairns)
Idiot Psalms 1 A psalm of Isaak, accompanied by Jew’s harp. O God Belovéd if obliquely so, dimly apprehended in the midst of this, the fraught...
View ArticleThis Is Just To Say (William Carlos Williams)
This Is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold by William Carlos Williams,”This...
View ArticleI am not old (Samantha Reynolds)
I Am Not Old I am not old…she said I am rare. I am the standing ovation At the end of the play. I am the retrospective Of my life as art I am the hours Connected like dots Into good sense I am the...
View ArticleHe Tends His Flock (Nicole T. Walters)
He Tends His Flock (Isaiah 40.11) The sun is fading behind the trees now And there’s a place I’m supposed to be But the fog is rolling in like waves, Slowly covering and drowning me. Somewhere is the...
View ArticleThe Owl and the Pussycat (Edward Lear)
The Owl and the Pussycat I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up...
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