Many things perplex me and leave me troubled ( Read more... )

Words to live by?
To live content with small means.
To seek elegance rather than luxury,
    and refinement rather than fashion.
To be worthy not respectable,
    and wealthy not rich.
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently,
    act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes,
    and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully,
    do all ( Read more... )

My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted grey
Is silver now with clinging mist ( Read more... )

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in ( Read more... )

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground ( Read more... )

( Sometimes it grew so much in sleep like a tiger's great-grandfather... )

"You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.

"But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

"And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the ( Read more... )

I think the vice-presidential debate was something of a draw. Palin exceeded expectations significantly (not hard to do!), and Biden didn't make any obvious gaffes. I think he could have hit her a little harder on some of her assertions, but at least he didn't come off as a bully. All in all, I doubt tonight changed anyone's mind. Very proud of ( Read more... )

Okay, so not really a poem... but I've had this stuck in my head all day, and I'm trying to expunge it by sharing. :D

( They paved paradise and put up a parking lot... )

SOME keep the Sabbath going to church ( Read more... )