As I walk along nature’s path The clouds appear luminous and nea… As if to hug and protect All earthly inhabitants. Turtles sunbathe on a floating log
As the hawk sees it or the helmete… The clouds rift suddenly - look th… At cigarette-end smouldering on a… At the first garden party of the y… Pass on, admire the view of the ma…
And for what, except for you, do… Do I press the extremest book of… Close to me, hidden in me day and… In the uncertain light of single,… Equal in living changingness to th…
Unhappy about some far off things That are not my affair, wandering Along the coast and up the lean ri… I saw in the evening The stars go over the lonely ocean…
Cruising these residential Sunday streets in dry August sunlight: what offends us is the sanities: the houses in pedantic rows, the p…
Be infinitesimal under that sky, a… even the sailing hawk misses, a wr… among the rocks where the mist par… Recall the way mere mortals are ov… by circumstance, how great reputat…
You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor… He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have…
cool colors not far behind life is a whirlwind eyes open at dawn close in a wink at dark valentine’s not too long ago
It is the first mild day of March… Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall… That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air,
Our shells clacked on the plates. My tongue was a filling estuary, My palate hung with starlight: As I tasted the salty Pleiades Orion dipped his foot into the wat…
I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is
I celebrate myself, and sing mysel… And what I assume you shall assum… For every atom belonging to me as… I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observ…
I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
Same old, same old on a Saturday… A bottle of Heineken in his hand Sat on the same bar stool, in the… Behind him the sounds of a three-p… Picture repeated almost everyday
let go and enjoy the moment day in the life kind– then let go of that moment and move on to the next one without anticipation and so on – and since you do not know what the future holds...
Make no mistake: if He rose at al… it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not… reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall.
Fleeting Sun Air I see you today The sun felt warm so suddenly Again the soft wind caresses Invigorates so calmly.
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your kn… for a hundred miles through the de… You only have to let the soft anim… love what it loves.
Evermore Love and Desire I must love you tonight Even as I slumber in the thoughts Of uncertain tomorrow a dream
CUP OF STRONG JOE AW… WHILE A LATTE SWIRLS… AS DAWN BREAKS AND YO…
Boxer’s split hoof was a long time in healing. They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended Boxer refused to take even a day off wor...
You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, that is a fish, blue and flat on the paper, almost
Come, Madam, come, all rest my po… Until I labour, I in labour lie. The foe oft—times having the foe i… Is tir’d with standing though he n… Off with that girdle, like heaven’…
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording
Sea Snake Oil The veins of the earth Water snake oil injected Purple roses bloom Deserts lush verdant forests
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
Echoes of the Sixties Scrambled Eggs With Rosemary A brunch of scrambled eggs and dar… Sounds especially good this Sunda… After a late tossing turning night…
fire made earth you walk on under your feet warm yet cold a winter discontent
Romance Romance Is Love In
Truth Seekers The Golden Fleece Let passion fly soar to the
It seemed an unlikely match. All… grinding its teeth in a plastic sl… nose-down from a hook in the darkr… under the hatch in the floor. When… it knocked back a quarter-pint of…
PYRE Not again a December Nor yet a January Last year’s transition Left me singly crying.
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of the...
Last night in the fields I lay down in the darkness to think about death, but instead I fell asleep,
...fossil, forests, and commerce... biking and walking... happy earth day... Once again we reflect on how to reduce the environmental impact of building, manufacturing and commerce, for...
“Which of these films was Dirk Bo… not in? One hundredweight of bauxi… makes how much aluminium? how many tales in ‘The Decameron’… General Studies, the upper sixth,…
I thought that I could not be hur… I thought that I must surely be impervious to suffering— immune to pain or agony.
Far... far away far... I hear and I drink The sweet songs of the cosmos The ambrosia the nectar The seasons of the universes
Unbiased at least he was when he a… Having never set eyes on the land… Between two peoples fanatically at… With their different diets and inc… “Time,” they had briefed him in L…
Long Live Tau Alpha The golden beads Of brotherhood is unbroken The Argo of love and fellowship Continues through twilights dusk t…
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone… Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened pleat… And that faint hint of the absurd—
Out From The Cages A Day In The Life Birds cry They plea all day long Out from their wire cages flutter
Poetry Live Blissful Moments At home and lost at once in a Dom… Caught between Stravinsky and Viv… Conveying a range of feelings of p…
Not quite four a.m., when the rapt… strikes me from sleep, and I rise from the comfortable bed and go to another room, where my books ar… in their neat and colorful rows. H…
shameless revenant a revenant ghost from the ninth circle of hell haunting the meadows sucking the wealth life shameless
goat horn home sweet cozy cave from the cornucopia shelves everything
Tightly-folded bud, I have wished you something None of the others would: Not the usual stuff About being beautiful,
first breath in heaven for faith hope and love stories a waiting time bookends space it is what life is we do all the best we could
Memories Shooting Stars A life’s treasure pleasant memorie… Snippets shared with friends and f… At lunch time at dinner time broad…
Joy to the World Flight Right out the north pole In a sled he goes! Down the solar stream Merrily merrily Ho Ho Hoing
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hum… equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there t… Here the clam deep in the speckled…
Dis poetry is like a riddim dat dr… De tongue fires a riddim dat shoot… Dis poetry is designed fe rantin Dance hall style, big mouth chanti… Dis poetry nar put yu to sleep
Smiling the Smiles Senior Moments You put a pot of water on the stov… Turned on the burner to parboil ha… Chicken for dinner with some green…
Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or somethi...
The Great Escape Soul in Flight from cradle to grave The journey in truth is our life
Whether he will go on singing or not, knowing what he knows of the horror of this world: He was not wandering among meadows all this time. He was down there
a bed fo’r king Ho Ho Ho ...they go Santa reindeers ...Rudolph go
“O who can ever gaze his fill,” Farmer and fisherman say, “On native shore and local hill, Grudge aching limb or callus on th… Father, grandfather stood upon thi…
What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning? Starting united both at normal walking pace from Beresford place they followed in the order named Lower and Middle Gardiner...