In honor of the playful spirit of April 1st, a poem from the delightful Mr. Lear is in order. If you must play jokes today, please do so from a place of kindness. Cruelty is not funny. Al Stewart has a wonderful musical version of this poem as well, which you can listen to on […]
Dreamwood ~ Adrienne Rich In the old, scratched, cheap wood of the typing stand there is a landscape, veined, which only a child can see or the child’s older self, a poet, a woman dreaming when she should be typing the last report of the day. If this were a map, she thinks, a map […]
A Woman Speaks ~ Audre Lorde Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors or my pride I do not mix love with pity […]
I chose today’s poem deliberately rather than randomly, as the last stanza ties in nicely with today’s draw. A Psalm of Life ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, […]
Still I Rise ~ Maya Angelou (Note: if you go to this page of her website, you can hear her read this poem, with musical and choral accompaniment. I recommend doing so. It’s *amazing*.) You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But […]
