Signs caught my eyeso much a part of the messageAlong with the feet marching,were the signs, “End War”,“Make Levees, not War”,“Blessed are the Peacemakers”,“Peace begins [...]

A Minstrel stands on a marble stair,Blown by the bright wind, debonair;Below lies the sea, a sapphire floor,Above on the terrace a turret doorFrames a [...]

Snow falls:years of anger followinghours that float idly down—the blizzarddrifts its weightdeeper and deeper for three daysor sixty years, eh? Thenthe sun! a clutter ofyellow [...]

Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream;I wish no happier one than to be laidBeneath a cool syringa’s scented shade,Or wavy willow, by [...]

Four billion people on this earth,but my imagination is the way it’s always been:bad with large numbers.It is still moved by particularity.It flits about the [...]

I sat before my glass one day, And conjured up a vision bare, Unlike the aspects glad and gay, That erst were found reflected there [...]

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You, once a belle in Shreveport,with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud,still have your dresses copied from that time,and play a Chopin preludecalled by Cortot: [...]

I want to give you something, my child, for we are drifting in thestream of the world.Our lives will be carried apart, and our love [...]

Long warned of many terrors more severe To scorch him than hell’s engines could awaken, He scanned again, too far to be so near, The [...]

How blind the toil that burrows like the mole, In winding graveyard pathways underground,For Browning’s lineage! What if men have foundPoor footmen or rich merchants [...]