I think the things I own and love Acquire a sense of me,That gives them value far above The worth that others see.My chattels are of me a part: This chair on which I sitWould break its overstuffed old heart If I made junk of it. To humble needs with which I live, My books, … Continued
Poem of the day – Sonnet VIII by Pablo Neruda
If your eyes were not the color of the moon,of a day full of clay, and work, and fire,if even held-in you did not move in agile grace like the air,if you were not an amber week, not the yellow momentwhen autumn climbs up through the vines;if you were not that bread the fragrant moonkneads, … Continued
Poem of the day – Dark Truth by Robert Service
Birds have no consciousness of doom:Yon thrush that serenades me dailyFrom scented snow of hawthorn bloomWould not trill out his glee so gaily,Could he foretell his songful breathWould sadly soon be stilled in death. Yon lambs that frolic on the leaAnd incarnate the joy of life,Would scarce disport them could they seeThe shadow of the … Continued
Poem of the day – I meant to find her when I came by Emily Dickinson
I meant to find her when I came; Death had the same design;But the success was his, it seems, And the discomfit mine. I meant to tell her how I longed For just this single time;But Death had told her so the first, And she had hearkened him. To wander now is my abode; To … Continued
Poem of the day – I Sit and Look Out by Walt Whitman
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,I see the wife misused by her husband, I … Continued
Poem of the day – Danny O’Dare by Shel Silverstein
Danny O’Dare, the dancin’ bear,Ran away from the County Fair,Ran right up to my back stairAnd thought he’d do some dancin’ there.He started jumpin’ and skippin’ and kickin’,He did a dance called the Funky Chicken,He did the Polka, he did the Twist,He bent himself into a pretzel like this.He did the Dog and the Jitterbug,He … Continued
Poem of the day – A Boundless Moment by Robert Frost
He halted in the wind, and–what was thatFar in the maples, pale, but not a ghost?He stood there bringing March against his thought,And yet too ready to believe the most. ‘Oh, that’s the Paradise-in-bloom,’ I said;And truly it was fair enough for flowershad we but in us to assume in marchSuch white luxuriance of May … Continued
Poem of the day – The Fish by William Butler Yeats
ALTHOUGH you hide in the ebb and flowOf the pale tide when the moon has set,The people of coming days will knowAbout the casting out of my net,And how you have leaped times out of mindOver the little silver cords,And think that you were hard and unkind,And blame you with many bitter words. – The … Continued
Poem of the day – Aboard at a Ship’s Helm by Walt Whitman
Aboard at a ship’s helm,A young steersman steering with care. Through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,An ocean-bell–O a warning bell, rock’d by the waves. O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,Ringing, ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck-place. For as on the alert O steersman, you mind the … Continued
Poem of the day – TRYING TO FORGET by Emily Dickinson
Bereaved of all, I went abroad, No less bereaved to beUpon a new peninsula, — The grave preceded me, Obtained my lodgings ere myself, And when I sought my bed,The grave it was, reposed upon The pillow for my head. I waked, to find it first awake, I rose, — it followed me;I tried to … Continued