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how dear the bare place looked
I never liked the end of The Tempest - I always that it was a waste and terribly sad to see Prospero to break his staff and return to the mainland. This poem suggests a remedy:
Prospero Goes Homeby Jack Gilbert ( Read more... ) -
alligator pie
Tonight's poem is a silly favourite from when I was a kid, lo all those eons ago:
Alligator Pieby Dennis Lee ( Read more... ) -
instead of maps
On ending a long-distance relationship (not that that's ever happened to me or anything), tonight's poem is:
Love in the Dark Countryby Kapka Kassabova ( Read more... ) -
and she put on her nervous breakdown hat
Positives for today: I bought the habitat and some of the other things I will need for the class gecko! Tomorrow, I will get the actual lizard! Also, RE went very well, and I got to talk to a few people at church I have been missing, so that was tres yay ( Read more... ) -
dancing toward bethlehem
I didn't post a poem yesterday because I came straight home from a long day at work and fell promptly asleep. So here's two for today, to make up the difference:
The Second Coming (Slouching Towards Bethlehem)by W.B. Yeats ( Read more... ) -
Who are you?
Tonight's poem is a well-known one, but it's an old favourite of mine, having meant a lot to me in high school ( Read more... ) -
wishes
Had a wonderful girls' night tonight. We made crepes, with strawberries, kiwi, bananas, and Nutella, talked a lot, and played with Baby G. It's good to have friends I can feel totally relaxed around. Also, made tentative plans with the girl I'm dating for this weekend. ^_^
Tonight's poem:
wishes for sonsby Lucille Clifton ( Read more... ) -
on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle
Today was the first day back after spring break. It was a pretty good day (besides the part where I learned that I will be proctoring for state testing for four days), but I'm pretty exhausted, so here's a lullaby for all of us:
The Sciences Sing a Lullaby
by Albert Goldbarth
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course ( Read more... ) -
it must sometimes make a kind of singing
Oh, special ed paperwork, why so horrifying and time-consuming? *drowns in work to be turned in tomorrow*
In the meantime, read this poem by Robert Hass:
Faint Music“Maybe you need to write a poem about grace ( Read more... )