Old Age ©Brian A. Bendallmore by Brian A. Bendall Published by Family Friend Poems October 2018 with permission of the Author. Arthritis makes my fingers swell. My bathroom visits really smell. When I find it hard to sleep, I remember math, to count my sheep....
Happy birthday, today I could not miss the opportunity to send you my best wishes to congratulate you with very beautiful poems written by me. I hope you haven’t taken the poems seriously. Congratulations. I do not know whether to congratulate you or give you condolences, because the years...
natural world had four seasons and four cardinal points fixed to the compass. Men lived through the four stages of childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age. All of these divisions, these fundamental realities, became associated with the humors. There was thus a “continuum between passions and ...
An overlooked and unique feature of his early works include humorous vignettes and free-verse poems in pseudonymous pieces published in the avant-garde journal Jugend. In later writings, he advances his own life-philosophy through an idiosyncratic use of Goethe’s scientific, autobiographical, and ...
Langston Hughes began writing poems in high school and soon became one of America's greatest writers. Most of his writing is about his experiences as an African American. He wrote poems about people who worked hard through life but still found things to be happy about. He wrote plays and ...
all from the 13th century and beyond—the Old Norse Eddic poems, the GermanNibelungenlied, and various poems about the heroDietrich von Bern/Theodoric. Only broken bits of this culture remain: runic inscriptions, mythological motifs on gold amulets, a few magic incantations (the “Merseburger Zaub...
Becausetragedyandepicare irrelevant to his age. Viciousness and corruption so dominate Roman life that, for someone who is honest, it is difficult not to write satire. He looks about him, and his heart burns dry with rage; never has vice been more triumphant. How can he be silent (Satire...