Our only daughter is turning 18 and will soon be leaving us for the big, bad world. She is our youngest and as such leaves us happy to have raised such an amazing daughter but sad to know our house will soon be empty. She is SUCH a Daddy's girl but in th
She then rhetorically asks if the Lark (Shakespeare’s songbird and likely Dickinson’s metonym for ‘the Poet’) can return to her shell (be the innocent Girl at school again). Yet she knows the answer. Wouldn’t bonds/bondage hurt more than her memory of that playful childhood? Then ...
Bishop recalls asking Borden why there was no copy of Observations on the library shelves and that Borden loaned her her own copy (which she apparently thought not good enough for the library). Borden explained that she had known Marianne since she was a little girl and suggested that if ...
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This poem is dedicated to our son, Bibek Tiwari, who left us at the age of 20 on June 1, 2008. He was a model and a caring son and brother for our family. We are so lonely without him. We love you, son!