Watching our shepherd sports at harvest-time When her son's turn was over. Goatherd. Sing your song. I too have rhymed my reveries, but youth Is hot to show whatever it has found, And till that's done can neither work nor wait. Old goatherds and old goats, if in all else Youth c...
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A Separate Peace is a book by John Knowles about 2 boys named Gene and Finny who are both very different and very similar. They both relate to each other in different ways and can be identified by how closely connected they are. John Knowles uses their connections to display an overall pe...
This poem is about me and some of the hardships I experienced. I compared them to a soldier who is continually facing battles and used military terms to compare the two. I wrote this in hopes that it gives courage to another individual who may also be facing trials and hardships in their...
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. ~ George Santayana ~ The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by ...
The poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes is the story of a mother speaking of life’s hardships to her son. The poem starts off with the protagonist’s haunting words about the difficulty of life; however, as the story goes on, her words of despair become words of wisdom to her...
I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it. ~ Anna Kendrick ~ When I...
Watch Live News Weather Morning News NY Living Sports Marketplace About Community PIX Partners Search In-studio poem reading by Stephanie Pacheco News A year ago, Stephanie Pacheco was named New York State’s first-ever Poet Laureate. Now, Pacheco’s hard work, passion, and ...
The 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate read herpowerful poem, “The Hill We Climb,”at Biden’s inauguration. Gorman, who regularly draws from current political events in her work, spoke passionately about the need for social change: “We learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and th...
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