There is a saying that I have heard a lot
Can I give you a penny for your thoughts?
I find it to be an odd sort of way
To coerce others to open up and say
Whatever is on their mind or hearts
With special interest in the juicy parts
I'm not so sure I ca…
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Good Hours by Robert Frost
“I had for my winter evening walk–
No one at all with whom to talk,
But I had the cottages in a row
Up to their shining eyes in snow”…
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Misgivings by Herman Melville
“When ocean-clouds over inland hills
Sweep storming in late autumn brown,
And horror the sodden valley fills,
And the spire falls crashing in the town,
I muse upon my country’s ills”…
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Grown Up by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?”
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Stars Wheel in Purple by Hilda Doolittle
“Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare
as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star
as bright Aldeboran or Sirius,
nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War”…
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A Pinch of Salt by Robert Graves
“When a dream is born in you
With a sudden clamorous pain,
When you know the dream is true
And lovely, with no flaw nor stain”…
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The Worst And The Best by Charles Bukowski
“in the hospitals and jails
it’s the worst
in madhouses
it’s the worst
in penthouses
it’s the worst
in skid row flophouses
it’s the worst”…
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Recently I visited New York City
It was sweltering heat each day
Which caught me quite by surprise
As I was expecting a cooler stay
The hustle and bustle of Manhattan
Was exactly as I knew it would be
Thousands of people running about
Several of them b…
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Love is Enough by William Morris
“Love is enough: though the World be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining”…
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She Dried Her Tears by Emily Bronte
“She dried her tears and they did smile
To see her cheeks’ returning glow
How little dreaming all the while
That full heart throbbed to overflow”…
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