“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” William Ernest Henley wrote these often quoted lines of poetry in 1875 while in a hospital recovering from tuberculosis of the bone that required an amputation of one leg and surgery on the other. The title of the poem is “Invictus” …Read More
Tag: Poetry
Do It Anyway ~ Mother Teresa
Do It Anyway People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you …Read More
Poem: David Whyte, Give Every Last Thing Away
THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD (excerpt) The sound of a bell still reverberating, or a blackbird calling from a corner of a field. Asking you to wake into this life or inviting you deeper to one that waits. Either way takes courage, either way wants you to be nothing but that self that is no …Read More
“Song of the Banana Man” by Evan Jones
Touris, white man, wipin his face, Met me in Golden Grove market place. He looked at m’ol’ clothes brown wid stain , An soaked right through wid de Portlan rain, He cas his eye, turn up his nose, He says, ‘You’re a beggar man, I suppose?’ On a recent podcast interview with Dr. Paul Jones, …Read More
Poetry Month – April 2017
April is NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) in the United States and Canada; or for my international friends, GloPoWriMo (Global Poetry Writing Month). In this annual project, participants take on the challenge to write a poem a day for the month of April: 30 poems in 30 days. Maureen Thorson began a personal challenge in …Read More