The Star Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key (1814) Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at [...]

The Power of Words

By Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word [...]

How to eat a Poem

Eve Merriam Don’t be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run [...]

“I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt”

Sylvia Plath I thought that I could not be hurt; I thought that I must surely be impervious to suffering– [...]

Risk

By Anais Nin And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful [...]

The Power Of Words

By Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word [...]

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

By Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune [...]

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

By Robert Frost  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one [...]