Almost the end of the month, so here, have a poem! I think it's awesome.

Pass/Fail by Linda Pastan ( Read more... )

I'm teaching middle school science today, so I was Googling around and found this neat quasi-scientific poem. Excellent!

A Song of the Future by Sidney Lanier ( Read more... )

Technology is amazing. With the help of TurboTax, I have successfully filed my taxes. Woohoo!

Also, I forgot to post a poem yesterday (oops) but here is one, short but fascinating.

A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughs ( Read more... )

The weather was horrendous earlier today, enough so that I only had one out of the four scheduled games for Chicks (with Lacrosse Sticks) so I got to spent time tidying my room and finally watching the DVD of season 1 CSI: NY. Aww, Eddie Cahill, you do puppy eyes so well. However, I wish you'd get a haircut. The episode where that happens will be ( Read more... )

Off to the grocery store, but first a poem!

Digging by Seamus Heaney ( Read more... )

I think this is so awesome (and such a twist on the idea of "bad") that I'm not cutting it. A poem for April by way of musesfool:

Bad Women by Janice Mirikitani
from San Francisco Women's Summit Speech, delivered on April 25, 2000Bad women ( Read more... )

I got a haircut! I always enjoy the whole ordeal of having someone else basically massage your head... not to mention that I am no longer drowning in my curly hair. Don't get me wrong; I like my hair. I like having hair. I actually (finally!) like having curly hair. But when it gets a little long, it gets to be a little much. But today it is ( Read more... )

Popping on to post another poem for April! I'm a huge fan of Whitman... I remember reading "Song of Myself" in both high school and college and loving it both times. Don't even get me started on With Honors, where a young Brendan Frasier learns all about life (and some poetry) with the help of Joe Pesci and a young Patrick Dempsey. Gosh, I watched ( Read more... )

I was to busy/stressed yesterday to remember to post a poem, oops. BUT the demo lesson that I had this morning went well, I think. And here is a poem for today!

Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward by Gwendolyn Brooks ( Read more... )

I thought of this yesterday and almost forgot to post it. Not the most uplifting poem ever, to be sure. Sorry? It was a rainy rainy Sunday (and I watched Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law fight and BFF their way through Guy Ritchie's London and it was glorious) which makes this appropriate.

I first heard "Funeral Blues" in the movie Four Weddings and ( Read more... )