October, 2012 – Life Live Fully
Live life fully
My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764)
BY EMILY DICKINSON
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -
In Corners - till a Day
The...
For Example
For Example
By Adrienne Rich
November 23, 1963
Sometimes you meet an old man
whose fist isn't clenched blue-white.
Someone like that old poet
whose grained palm once travelled
the bodies...
Artist’s Life
Artist's Life
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Of all the waltzes the great Strauss wrote,
mad with melody, rhythm--rife
From the very first to the final note,
Give me his...
December, 2009 – The Summer Day
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself...
March, 2015 – Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
Undocumented
Undocumented
By Krista Martinelli
Undocumented Mexican laborers
It happened to a nineteen-year-old me.
On a cherry orchard on the side of a mountain
Flathead Lake, Montana.
Big Sky country.
They would...
April, 2015 – Spring
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring
January, 2011 – Grateful
Grateful
am I
for the sight to see
the beauty
in the earth below
and the sky above;
Blessed
am I
to feel the rustling
of wind blowing
through my hair;
Thankful
am...
March, 2014 – Sidekicks
Poem of the Month
Sidekicks
Ronald Koertge
They were never handsome and often came
with a hormone imbalance manifested by corpulence,
a yodel of a voice or ears big...