Something a little spiritual for today’s poem. My Polar Star I have made You the polar star of my existence; never again can I lose my way in the voyage of life. Wherever I go, You are always there to shower your benefience all around me. Your face is ever […]
Some of my readers may be asking themselves, “Well she is posting things about poetry month, why now is there a sonnet?” Some of you, my dear readers, may not know what a sonnet actually is. A lot of people attribute Sonnet’s with Shakespeare. They think it was just something […]
I just finished reading Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (duh.) Who knew it was such a beautiful and amazing book. Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the […]
Spring has sprung, now poems have begun. The Spring by Thomas Carew Now that the winter’s gone, the earth hath lost Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost Candies the grass, or casts an icy cream Upon the silver lake or crystal stream; But the warm sun thaws […]
April is poetry month so you can expect to be seeing some awesome and interesting poems this month. Hopefully, if you love to read, you will know some of the poems. Let Poetry Month begin. Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old […]
April is Poetry Month and so in honor of it I thought I would share some poems throughout the entire month. I think today would be a nice day to share some Spring poems as we are supposedly in spring and I do not know one person who wants Winter […]
Today is November 2nd and in Christian cultures it is the day when the souls of the deceased are remembered. In Mexico it is Día de Muertos ~ The Day of the Dead. It is a time to celebrate the lives of ancestors and loved ones with their favorite […]
Have you been keeping up on the Chilean mining situation? After what must have felt like an eternity in the dark, so far underground, the miners are being rescued. Slowly and carefully, one by one. To read of their ordeal is sobering. But did you know that while they have […]
Here is a little something different to send you towards the weekend. A poem for a hot, steamy summer day. Summer by Lee Bennett Hopkins Fairgrounds Ferris wheels cotton candy heat always — always– cool snow cone treats baseball games fireworks mosquito bites what surprises occur on long summer nights.
As you may know from my last post about the Titanic (see last Titanic post) I am in the love with the RMS Titanic. She was the biggest ship of her time and was thought to be unsinkable. That is what everyone knows. But there are some things that can […]
*The Clown, Feste, sings this song at the end of the play. it is a gloomy history of his growth from childhood. The repeated refrain “the rain is raineth everyday,” is a particularly bleak vision of the world, especially of a world that has provided the extraordinarily happy ending of […]
You can find poems in very unlikely places. Did you think that there were poems in Winnie The Pooh? I am sure there are many poems in “Winnie The Pooh”, but here is a quite well known. THE MORE IT SNOWS The more it SNOWS-tiddely-pom The more it GOES-tiddely-pom The […]
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear The Owl and Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, “O […]
Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you. But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I. But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is […]
