The Sacred by Stephen Dunn After the teacher asked if anyone had a sacred place and the students fidgeted and shrunk in their chairs, the most serious of them all said it was his car, being in it alone, his…
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My Son My Executioner
My Son My Executioner by Donald Hall My son, my executioner, I take you in my arms, Quiet and small and just astir And whom my body warms. Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hunger…
I’ll You How the Sun Rose
I’ll You How the Sun Rose by Emily Dickinson I’ll tell you how the Sun rose – A Ribbon at a time – The Steeples swam in Amethyst – The news, like Squirrels, ran – The Hills untied their Bonnets…
Elm
Elm by Sylvia Plath For Ruth Fainlight I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. Is it the sea you…
All the World’s a Stage
All the World’s a Stage by William Shakespeare All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven…
Waterfall
Waterfall by Lauris Dorothy Edmond I do not ask for youth, nor for delay in the rising of time’s irreversible river that takes the jewelled arc of the waterfall in which I glimpse, minute by glinting minute, all that I…
The Man in the Glass
The Man in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you king for a day Just go to the mirror and look at yourself And see what…
Sonnet 151
Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare Love is too young to know what conscience is; Yet who knows not, conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest…
Holding Hands
Holding Hands by Lenore M. Link Elephants walking Along the trails Are holding hands By holding tails. Trunks and tails Are handy things When elephants walk In circus rings. Elephants work And elephants play And elephants walk And feel so…
Proverbs 10:22
Verse The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it – Proverbs 10:22 Meaning of Proverbs 10:22 The meaning of the verse, “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no…
Psalm 46:5
Verse God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early – Psalm 46:5 Meaning of Psalms 46:5 The meaning of the verse, “God is in the midst of her;…
Matthew 5:9
Verse Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God – Matthew 5:9 Meaning of Matthew 5:9 The meaning of the verse, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God,” is…
A Litany for Survival
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love…
The Bluebird
The Bluebird by Charles Bukowski there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my…
Spring
Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The…
All along the Watchtower
All along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan There must be some kind of way outta here Said the joker to the thief There’s too much confusion I can’t get no relief Business men, they drink my wine Plowmen dig my…
A Valentine
A Valentine by Edgar Allan Poe For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Loeda, Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly…
Sweeney Among The Nightingales
Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot Apeneck Sweeney spread his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to maculate giraffe. The circles of the stormy moon Slide westward toward the…
Sonnet 106
Sonnet 106: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time by William Shakespeare When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,…
Sonnet 75
Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life by William Shakespeare So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season’d showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I…