Variations On The Word Love

This is a word we use to plug holes with. It’s the right size for those warm blanks in speech, [...]

The Secret of the Machines

By Rudyard Kipling (MODERN MACHINERY) We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,    We were melted in the furnace [...]

Kindness To Animals

Poet: Unknown They have no voice to ask us For the pity which they need With shame they cannot task [...]

Advice to a Prophet

Richard Wilbur – 1921-2017 When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city, Mad-eyed from stating [...]

Stones

by David Wagoner I bring them from the mountains, from the sea, from the edge of streams and look at [...]

The Fish

Elizabeth Bishop – 1911-1979 I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with [...]

AGAIN AND AGAIN

Rainer Maria Rilke Again and again, however we know the landscape of love and the little churchyard there, with its [...]

On Pain

Kahlil Gibran – 1883-1931 And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain.      And he said:      Your pain [...]