The finished works sit on another side, waiting for their final embellishment, to put on their bridal gowns. Now, a few things are coming to a conclusion. This time when the door opens, there stands someone who has been absent from his life for the past thirty years. His adversary finall...
Kids Who Die This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi
For which reprov'd, as better Fed than Taught, He rightly thus expostulates the Fault. To keep the House from Rascals was my Charge; The Task was great, and the Commission large. Nor did your Worship e'er declare your Mind, That to the begging Crew it was confin'd; Who shri...
who did it to frighten the emperor when chiding him. Neither do they delude themselves like some ancient fool who believed in his mental power to become invisible and asked a tiger for its hide. The modern-day experts vacation in the temple, pray at the alter, and sing praises of Nature...
When someone dies, churches used to toll their bells with clappers on that made a particular sound that people would recognize right away meant someone had died. The end of the poem tells us that when we hear the bells ringing that someone has died, we don't need to ask who it is. ...
The poet Fred Voss, who has died at the age of 72, was one of the great American writers of manual labour. He went beyond the poet as witness in a journalistic sense, for he lived what he wrote and he wrote more than three thousand poems. ...
(One example: William Wordsworth's 1799 poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," about a recluse who died in seclusion, in which the narrator drops a hint that he may have been her unrequited lover.) The subjects rated the passages on how poetic they seemed and whether or not the ...
Sometimes a gift is simply how we see or who we see And, birthdays always remind us of the gift of someone’s life We had a gift at golf yesterday, it was quite special indeed The conversation included a player, one we shall call a star seed ...
For example, in late 1912, the English poet Thomas Hardy lost his wife, Emma. She died suddenly, at least in Hardy’s eyes. He did not know about his wife’s illness until after she was gone. This was due to their separation (although they lived in the same home) and his mental ...
A part of you died and you feel at times incomplete without that person you would always run to tell about your day. About anything. That person you could count on to make you laugh, to listen to you when you would cry, and who would build you up when you were feeling down. I ...