and reflection on life.Short Poems & Quotes|Poems| Poems About LifeByCatherine Pulsifer, updated November 7, 2024A collection of inspiring short poems about life that we feel are the best to inspire and encourage you. Living your life to the fullest is what we should all strive to do. Man...
The title is taken from a Rafael Alberti poem of the same name. Alberti’s poem, written in 1937, is marked with the same destruction and scars of war, but it is also a poem of resistance and hope, where the future is bright, or as the title of the second volume says, “the coun...
At their large ten year high school reunion, he asks her to dance and she slowly realizes he's the brother of someone she doesn't want to ever see again, but there's an instant connection. A romance writer can't find her own happily ever after until she meets… It's conference seaso...
when the work is done I see, through my poems, various aspects of scenery and you as well But you will never know which somehow makes me happy in secret My emptiness from writing is fulfilled somehow I know not a thing What others see through my poem Between you and me there is more ...
I would have hoped that someone from by hometown would care about my modest achievements; to at least prepare a little certificate to hang on the wall. It never happened till yesterday when, walking along the falling autumn leaves of the “Parco Lambro” I found this wonderful dedication (...
This story, written by a woman, is a sad look inside an unhappy marriage. Mrs. Mallard is a woman with heart troubles. When her husband dies, the people who come to give her this news tell it to her gently, so she doesn’t have a shock. ...
He said, “Now you are Gen’s army, but you are not needed now. Sleep in the sand until she calls for you. When she needs you, she will say this poem aloud to command you.” “Flitter flatter birds flutter. Flowers wave their petals like waving bird wings. Sticks are falling from...
“So drink this down.” said Caper, “It’s not safe in the mist and we don’t want to be waking up 400 years in the future, if we’re lucky enough that someone comes to rescue us.” Ari said, “The tea protects against fey magic and when enhanced by the fey magic in the sil...
Halloween Haunt Classic: “The Bells,” A Poem By Edgar Allan Poe I apologize…circumstances prevented me from doing what I had hoped this year…. Please enjoy this representation of my first dramatic reading on this program…you’ll find I’m very…dramatic…. And please check back for ...
the weekend turned into a poem itself. It started with snow on the Friday morning…seven inches of it in Cavan (Jerry measured it with a ruler). It looked and sounded beautifully silent, but I wasn’t sure about driving in it. However all was fine. The worst part was our own front ...