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