When walking through your day, you might get lost. Are you really lost? Where are you? What should you do? Find wisdom in the words from the American poet, David Wagoner. Lost —by David Wagoner Stand still. The trees ahead and buses beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you …Read More
Category: Poem
How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again
One of the most profound sections of any bookstore lives with the Children’s Books. My cousin’s kids lured me into this dangerous repository of wisdom from the safe zone of the Adult Self-Help Section. Be careful! Among those wise little people, inspiration can fall and fracture your head into a million little pieces. Humpty Dumpty …Read More
Poem: “If” by Rudyard Kipling
If— by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied …Read More
Chief Tecumseh: A Poem on Living
A Poem by Tecumseh “So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view,and demand that they respect yours.Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service …Read More
Poem: Derek Walcott – “Love After Love”
Love After Love ~ by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine. Give bread. Give back …Read More
Fooling With Words – Golden Retrievals
“One of poetry’s greatest powers is its preservative ability to take a moment in time and make an attempt to hold onto it.” ~ Mark Doty Poetry is one of my great loves for how it often captures what is beyond words, and in that great paradox, captures it with words. Poetry connects us through …Read More
Stanley Kunitz – inspiring poetry
In his nineties, a slight old man walks up to the stage at the Dodge Poetry Festival to a huge applause. The poet, Stanley Kunitz, became poet laureate at the age of 95 and wrote poetry up until he was 100 years old. If that alone does not inspire you, listen to his poetry. Watch …Read More
Poet: Debra Hiers begins with Love
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” ~ Emily Dickinson Every now and then, a poem captures my attention. This poem came to me from a friend at the start of 2017. So commanding is the poem, that I have committed it to …Read More
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
One last chance to recite this poem for the year before Santa Claus goes to rest. He’s out there and very busy. You can track him on the Official NORAD website. Yes, the North American Aerospace Defense Command actually tracks Santa. (There’s a whole other story of how the U.S. military got involved in Santa …Read More
Howard Thurman: I Will Light Candles this Christmas
From “The Mood of Christmas…”—by Howard Thurman I will light Candles this Christmas,Candles of joy despite all the sadness,Candles of hope where despair keeps watch,Candles of courage for fears ever present,Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days,Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens,Candles of love to inspire all my living,Candles that will burn all year long. …Read More