As promised, a bit of eye-candy to hold you over until I get the “feature” post finished. (I’m shooting for Monday.)
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’
For the Grapes’ Sake
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Photos, Poetry, tagged Poetry, season, sun, heart, leaf, wall, frost, fall, day, hour, ripe, O hushed October morning mild, for the grapes sake, leaves, autumn, wind, wild, crow, raven, poem, Robert Frost, tomorrow, break, noon, tree, wood, forest, mist, land, fruit, grape, vine on October 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Love Arrives
Posted in Daily Life, Poetry, Readings, tagged chains, costs, courage, dare, delight, e, fear, free, liberate, loneliness, memories, pain, pleasure, poems, Poetry, timid on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Touched by An Angel
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from [...]
who dares
Posted in Personal Insights, Poetry, Readings, tagged e e cummings, my heart is sick, Poetry, who dares on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jehovah buried, Satan dead,
do fearers worship Much and Quick;
badness not being felt as bad,
itself thinks goodness what is meek;
obey says toc,submit says tic,
Eternity’s a Five Year Plan:
if Joy with Pain shall hang in hock
who dares to call himself a man?
go dreamless knaves on shadows fed,
your Harry’s Tom,your Tom is Dick;
while gadgets murder squawk and add,
the [...]
i carry your heart
Posted in Poetry, Readings, tagged e e cummings, heart, Poetry on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun [...]