Here's an original poem for kids that I wrote to honor the day. (I wrote three or four of them, so I have several years' worth of celebrations to go!)

Raise the Flag and Let it Waveby Kelly Ramsdell Fineman ( Read more... )

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Today was spent at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, where we took a tour and attended the open house for prospective students. No, it's not for me or my sweetheart; it's for my beloved's granddaughter, Ashley. In honor of Poetry Friday, I wrote this wee verse:

We took our girl to college ( Read more... )

Why, yes. Yes there is. There is selling the poem again, which is what has happened with my poem, "A Place to Share", found in the marvelous and award-winning anthology, Dare to Dream . . . Change the World, edited by Jill Corcoran ( Read more... )

It's Wednesday, which is a good day for something from Shakespeare (and a bit of a tradition around here, when I remember to get my act together). Speaking of acts, today's poetry is found in Act III, scene 2 of As You Like It. You can read my (somewhat irreverent) summary of the play if you'd like, but assuming that not all of you have the time or ( Read more... )

Christina Rossetti was remarkable. The poem I'm featuring today was sent to me by one of my dearest friends a while back. I think it's another example of her exceeding her brother's talent. It's thematically similar to some of the Willowwood sonnets crafted by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, following the death of a woman named Lizzie Siddal, ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the birthday of two men I consider geniuses (in actuality, and in their fields): Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known under his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Today, a short poem by Lewis Carroll from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

How Doth the Little Crocodile
by Lewis Carroll

How doth the little ( Read more... )

Yesterday, millions of people world-wide heard Elizabeth Alexander read a poem. I happened to like it as I heard it, although three out of three people I know who also listened to it had issues with her delivery that prevented them from fully appreciating her text. I think, though, that upon a second reading, it improves, regardless of one's first ( Read more... )

I find that from time to time, some of the poems written by Tolkien within The Lord of the Rings comes to mind unbidden. Not the really lovely stuff, like Elf song, but the simple rhymes attributed to Bilbo Baggins. Of course, I did watch part of the Fellowship of the Rings movie on TV last night, but went to bed before it was over, so today I can' ( Read more... )

Longtime readers know that I generally share something that's on my mind. And like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.

Today, I'm sharing with you a poem by German poet Friedrich Rückert, which I first learned as a lied, a poem set to music. The version I was just singing in the shower was set by Robert ( Read more... )