My dad and I were talking about the meaning of Memorial Day. I thought about all the people who gave their lives and left their families. I thought my poem might make a soldier and a veteran know that I care.
About the title of the book [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”bottom-to-top”] The title of the book A Roller Coaster Ride is Short comes from a poem Laura wrote when she was only thirteen years old called: The Roller Coaster Ride. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text...
) non-literary post here so that it can be shared with the Indiana State Chess Association’s website/blog. I do hope to return to writing about books and short stories someday soon, however.
It calls up several lines from John Keats’s poem Endymion that I have been waiting to use ever since I memorized them in college forty years ago: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness.” Posted in healing, loosening ...
Again the example is from her poem The Colossus, where she uses stony imagery, which refers to the unyielding cold male colossus. It is considered by some critics as an admission of the need for a sense of security, which she had in her childhood. But she moves ahead and comes to ...
(About the traveling) One day after the memorial service for my friend, it was raining. I stayed at the Red Roof Inn. I ended up writing a poem for Anne Russell, “The Red Roof Inn Plus.” In remembrance for a time my dog and I stayed with her once. It actually came out pretty...
Mum wrote this about her wild and free childhood on the Thames. I thought about this poem as I walked along the North Tyne at lunchtime today. Sally Posted inPoems|1 Comment #30DaysWild Day 26 Transformation Posted onJune 26, 2019bythehutts ...
Alongside her literary work, Kathryn writesbeautiful bespoke poetry. Her work is read at weddings, birthdays and other celebrations, as well as being an important part of funeral or memorial services. Kathryn approaches each of these commissions on an individual basis, and works closely with her ...
1 (BWV 825), with a dedicatory poem, to the Köthen court as a form of congratulation on the birth of an heir, Prince Emanuel Ludwig (born September 12, 1726). In December 1726, on the installation of Dr Gottlieb Kortte as university , Bach produced a more sizable occasional work, ...
She published another poem ‘In the Mecca’ in 1968. This was her most famous work. It was a long poem which dealt with the search of a mother for a lost child. Arthur Frank London Brown invited her to the University of Chicago to teach a course in American Literature. This began her...