poems
Sudden Hymn in Winter
by Joseph Fasano What if, after years of trial, a love should come and lay its hand upon you and say, this late, your life is not a crime
May 16, 2025
Letter
by Joseph Fasano Tonight, as you walk out into the stars, or the forest, or the city, look up as you must have looked before love came, before love
May 16, 2025
The Laughing Heart
by Charles Bukowski your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is light
February 3, 2025
Flare
from Flare by Mary Oliver Let grief be your sister, she will whether or no. Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also, like the diligent
November 4, 2024
Rilke - The Man Watching
from The Man Watching by Rainer Maria Rilke *** How small that is, with which we wrestle, what wrestles with us, how immense; were we to let
June 11, 2024
Of the Empire
by Mary Oliver We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for
February 29, 2024
Pied Beauty
by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout
December 30, 2022
The World Is Too Much With Us
by William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is
December 23, 2022
What can we do?
by Charles Bukowski at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity. some understanding and, at times, acts of courage but all in all it is a mass, a
December 22, 2022
Invictus
by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable
December 21, 2022
Death, Be Not Proud
by John Donne Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think’st thou dost
November 23, 2022
Roll the Dice
by Charles Bukowski if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way. this could mean
November 23, 2022
God's World
by Edna St. Vincent Millay O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! Thy mists, that roll and rise! Thy woods, this
November 23, 2022
God's Grandeur
by Gerard Manley Hopkins The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness,
November 23, 2022
Gitanjali 37 - Voyage
by Rabindranath Tagore I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power— that the path before me was closed, that
November 23, 2022
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by T. S. Eliot S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma percioche giammai
November 23, 2022
Go to the Limits of Your Longing
by Rainer Maria Rilke God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You,
February 18, 2021