excerpt from a Mayan love poem translated by Michael R. BurchRemove your clothes; let down your hair; become as naked as the day you were born— virgins!To a Dark Moses by Lucille Cliftonyou are the one i am lit for. Come with your rod...
from a child victim of racism, to a single mother working odd jobs to secure her son's future; from a nightclub dancer and performer to a renowned poet and author; from a coordinator for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference to a friend and advisor to two U....
Grandpa Poems for Funeral It may be challenging to choose a poem to read during your grandfather’s funeral. How can you discover the appropriate words to express how you’re feeling? Here are a few funeral poems for grandad to think about. These heartfelt funeral poems for grandpa tell us...
I went with Angela Ball's poem for the first prize, but there was a good pool to pick from (I counted eight entries as possibles). For me, it came down to some great lines. Angela wrote (in Buk's voice) "I'm sorry for my wife / I'm sorry for anyone's wife" which seemed ...
Months later at the joint funeral of Bub and Heidi the pastor of that same Brethren church mentioned that maybe their happiness on their wedding day had attracted the attention of the devil. The devil is always attracted when things look to be going well in people’s ...
And a pillow for its head, Then last night it ran away, But first - it wet the bed! Short & Funny Christmas Poem A Chubby Snowman ~ Anon A chubby little snowman had a carrot nose. Along came a bunny, and what do you suppose? That hungry little bunny, looking for...
As a wife-devoted, as a mother-affectionate, as a friend-our trust and love, in life-she exhibited all the graces of a Christian, in death-her redeemed spirit returned to God who gave it As a wife, she had no equal. As a mother, she had no superior As for me and my house, we...
It’s this scene alone – in which John Hannah reads WH Auden’s poem ‘Funeral Blues’ – that cast the greatest influence over audiences. Emotionally honest and full of human warmth, ‘Four Weddings…’ stands out as one of the most enjoyable of British romcoms. And what’s more, it...
This poem by Ezra Pound is a wonderful miniature of English society, captured in a poem for the ages. It is also one of the best free verse poems from the early modernists known as the Imagists. Today the best-known Imagists are Pound and his protégé T. S. Eliot (who has two po...
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;