Well, in the UK, anyway. Close enough ( Read more... )

I love this one.

The Canonization
by John Donne

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love ;
    Or chide my palsy, or my gout ;
    My five gray hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout ;
With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve ;
        Take you a course, get you a place,
        Observe his Honour, or his Grace ;
Or the ( Read more... )

Words hang in air as thin ( Read more... )

Two poems in the space of a year. What the hell?

BelovedDid you know, when first you set ( Read more... )

Part I ( Read more... )

If you see this, quote me something either in my journal or your own, for I'm half parched for poetry today. I'll start ( Read more... )

This was the reading at the UU service I went to last weekend, and I have to say I really like it. Therefore I will share it with all of you ( Read more... )

Evidently this is what my brain does when it wants to avoid homework. It's too bad it didn't want to be written in iambic pentameter. Then it would have been my only real sonnet ever. I still kinda like it, even if I did fudge one of the rhymes ( Read more... )