Poetry

Cats Sleep Anywhere

Sleeping is one of the things cats do best. Which is lucky because it limits the number of minutes and…

7 years ago

Aubade

An aubade is a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning. By the 1930's it was…

7 years ago

Moonlight

Moonlight What time the meanest brick and stone Take on a beauty not their own, And past the flaw of…

7 years ago

Abandoned Farmhouse

Abandoned Farmhouse He was a big man, says the size of his shoes on a pile of broken dishes by…

7 years ago

A Wartime Education

Britain declared war on Germany just after U.A. Fanthorpe's birthday in 1939. She was ten. Living in Kent she was…

7 years ago

The hand that signed the paper

In light of decision-making by executive order and the White House signing ceremonies that seem to exude smug gloating -…

7 years ago

Tides

Tides O patient shore, that canst not go to meet Thy love, the restless sea, how comfortest Thou all thy…

7 years ago

On the Fifth Day

On the Fifth Day the scientists who studied the rivers were forbidden to speak or to study the rivers. The…

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A Polished Performance

A Polished Performance Citizens of the polished capital Sigh for the towns up country, And their innocent simplicity. People in…

7 years ago

Power

Power by Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.…

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