Here is a poem, written by my daughter for a competition. I would like to share it with you all. Hope you enjoy it like I did. … * … * … What would be the best poem ever written, you might ask For such a thing as competitions exist For an overthinker like me,…
Read MoreAlexander Pope ( 1688-1744) was born in London and became severely ill at the age of twelve so that his health was ruined and his body was deformed. He educated himself and at the age of sixteen published his first poems, Pastorals. He wrote much poetry and prose, but is famous for his satires. ..…
Read MoreFree Born free to be caught and fashioned and shaped and freed to wander within a caged dream of tears From New Poems on the Underground Edited by Gerard Benson, Judith Chernaik, Cicely Herbert. Merle Collins (born 1950 in Aruba) is a Grenadian poet and short story writer. Her first collection of poetry, Because the…
Read MoreGive to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the by-way nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river— There’s the life for a man like me, There’s the life for ever. Let the blow fall soon…
Read MoreBond and Free Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about— Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought has need of no such things, For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings. On snow and sand and turf, I see Where Love has left a printed trace With…
Read MoreThe child’s foot is not yet aware it’s a foot, and would like to be a butterfly or an apple. But in time, stones and bits of glass, streets, ladders, and the paths in the rough earth go on teaching the foot that it cannot fly, cannot be a fruit bulging on the branch. Then,…
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