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Stones by Kevin Young
epub |eng | 2021-09-28 | Author:Kevin Young [Young, Kevin]

Chisel Our words hope to mend what wind wants instead— carved by hand, this stone soft enough to chisel & scalpel in a finger aimed at heaven. rest we will ...
( Category: Family December 12,2022 )
The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:Jack Gilbert [Gilbert, Jack]

THE DANGER OF WISDOM We learn to live without passion. To be reasonable. We go hungry amid the giant granaries this world is. We store up plenty for when we ...
( Category: Places December 10,2022 )
What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Kim Addonizio

We know the ugly hate the beautiful, and the bitter losers are all seething over bad coffee, washed in the sleazy fluorescence of fast-food restaurants. We know the wheelchairs hate ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 10,2022 )
A Boy's Will and North of Boston by Robert Frost
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Robert Frost

“There are bees in this wall.” He struck the clapboards, Fierce heads looked out; small bodies pivoted. We rose to go. Sunset blazed on the windows. Blueberries “You ought to ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 10,2022 )
Life Work by Donald Hall
epub |eng | 2003-12-15 | Author:Donald Hall [Hall, Donald]

TWO THESE LAST WORDS I wrote more than a week ago, and I wrote them on a Friday without consciousness of anxiety. Saturday I drove to Vermont and back, talking ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 5,2022 )
Now It's Dark by Peter Gizzi
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Peter Gizzi

SOME JOY FOR MORNING Now the connection with spring has dissolved. Now that hysteria is blooming. Says every day I want to fly my kite. Says what’s a grammar when ...
( Category: Family December 5,2022 )
Eighteen Inches by Mirtha Michelle Castro Marmol
epub |eng | 2020-09-02 | Author:Mirtha Michelle Castro Marmol

9" Some people experience physical war, but all I know is the war within. Selfishness When I consider the power of decisions, I can’t help but think of the lessons ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 5,2022 )
Finding Mother God by Carol Lynn Pearson
epub |eng | 2020-07-30 | Author:Carol Lynn Pearson

Heavenly Mother’s Lullaby I close all the curtains, I turn out the light, I tuck the night around you. Your toys are away now, the day’s in its drawer. My ...
( Category: Nature December 5,2022 )
Good Boys by Megan Fernandes
epub |eng | 2020-01-08 | Author:Megan Fernandes

SICILIA When it appears on your arm like a map, you go to choke the green leaf thinking poison ivy or poison oak and that makes you think of Uma ...
( Category: Nature December 5,2022 )
A Socially Acceptable Breakdown by Patrick Roche
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Patrick Roche [Roche, Patrick]

Calling Mom Poem in Which Flowers Are Replaced by My Brain Late April and my brain is losing petals in the wind But still my brain buds and blooms and ...
( Category: Family December 5,2022 )
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney
epub |eng | 2018-12-31 | Author:John Kenney [Kenney, John]

Seafood? I meant to tell you as I was driving home from the mall earlier I heard that marvelous song by Beyoncé. I forget the name but she sings about ...
( Category: Family December 4,2022 )
The Voice Celestial by Ernest Holmes
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Holmes

Praise rises from my soul Like incense wafted from an altar-bowl, As though the winds of morning gently blow Across the garden of my heart, and so Do gather perfume ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 4,2022 )
Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Life by Kahlil Gibran
epub |eng | | Author:Kahlil Gibran

I suffered at the hands of despotic rulers. I suffered slavery under insane invaders. I suffered hunger imposed by tyranny. Yet I still possess some inner power with which I ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 3,2022 )
Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado
epub |eng | 2019-12-15 | Author:Diana Marie Delgado

Maria Let’s admit there was never going to be a baby, let alone the one we talked about that year. She would have been beautiful, with long feet, a bad ...
( Category: Family December 3,2022 )
Meadowlands by Louise Gluck
epub |eng | 2021-09-14 | Author:Louise Gluck

Meadowlands 3 How could the Giants name that place the Meadowlands? It has about as much in common with a pasture as would the inside of an oven. New Jersey ...
( Category: Family December 3,2022 )

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