Freedom
by Ambrose Bierce Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I [...]
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 [...]