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The Transcendental Journey — Karl Constantine FOLKES	I met you on the journey in the middle of the path where like Dante courting Beatrice you gave me cause to pause, to stop and ponder with you the many...	331 views Rate it
My Doe-Doe Sweetheart — Karl Constantine FOLKES	To my Dao De Pu, God brought you into my life, My “Doe-Doe”...	330 views Rate it
The Thought That Lingers: Part Two — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The sun will rise and give us light; a daunting light. But this light can offend. If we embrace its strength, its light becomes the dark. Does...	328 views Rate it
Unnatural Love — Allen Tate	Landor, not that I doubt your word, That you had strove with none At seventy-five and had deferred To nature and art alone; It is rather that at...	325 views Rate it
"A Poem To My Grieving Mother" by Gladys Yaa Mantey — A Poem To My Grieving Mother	A Poem To My Grieving Mother ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All will be well, mother! Yesterday was bleak With no sign of hope No hint of comfort on the horizon ...	318 views Rate it
Your Spirit To Claim — Kurt Philip Behm	The words in the melody the words on the page Related but different the Minstrel and Sage The music recaptures what ink only...	310 views Rate it
The Wreck of the Hesperus — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wint'ry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him...	310 views Rate it
Adrift In the Wind — Kurt Philip Behm	There is too much ancestry coursing my soul to do me any real good To live in a cave on a deserted island my destiny best...	305 views Rate it
Dad — Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more; I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war. A proud ole man 'e was. But I've watched 'im, An' seen 'is...	299 views Rate it
Little Hands and Little Feet — Esteban Rodriguez	Little hands, little feet Swaddled up and sleeping Dependent on someone to protect and nurture So innocent So beautiful Little hands that will grab,...	298 views Rate it
Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun — Walt Whitman	GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard; Give me a field...	279 views Rate it
The Cataract of Lodore — Robert Southey	'How does the water Come down at Lodore?' My little boy asked me Thus, once on a time; And moreover he tasked me To tell him in rhyme. Anon, at the word,...	274 views Rate it
Bastard Of Time — Kurt Philip Behm	When time loses its hold do you choose a new father Free of place and all station even freer from...	268 views Rate it
Brother and Sister — George Eliot	I....	259 views Rate it
Forgiveness Totem — Kennet Benoît-Hutchins	Tree give me shade to rest tired memories, a bench to watch the world lap up my past a shaded pathway to reawaken, to colour, a child’s desire to...	249 views Rate it
Kaa’s Hunting — Rudyard Kipling	His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalo’s pride. Be clean, for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hide. If ye...	245 views Rate it
Shadows I have seen — Brian S. Clifton	Is it a silhouette of memory, Or a shadow I have seen— In the brief moments 'twixt waking and sleep, in the small space which intervenes? The...	241 views Rate it
To Bless And To Guide — Kurt Philip Behm	Your brightness, your smile changed my life As your spirit recharged my heart With the strength of your father and mothers’...	234 views Rate it
Ambulance — Paul Marauder	Where’s the ambulance? the medic? the nurse? Can’t you see I’m f*cking dying here Are you blind? I need an ambulance A doctor A nurse What the...	229 views Rate it
Winter Complaint — Ogden Nash	Now when I have a cold I am careful with my cold, I consult a physician And I do as I am told. I muffle up my torso In woolly woolly garb, And I quaff...	227 views Rate it
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind — Stephen Crane	Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is...	227 views Rate it
Out, Out — Robert Frost	The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it....	226 views Rate it
War lauds — Hubbs	Dare to challenge bond between sisters, brothers, fathers and mothers? Tribe of born warriors Braves that have already challenged and overcame their...	215 views Rate it
Grandfather's Divorce — Kurt Philip Behm	He never told me when he left her, I’d go through a Grandfather’s divorce The kids remote and distant all contact scant and...	214 views Rate it
Something Newsworthy! — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Like a new-born babe Is a Fed-Ex delivery Sent home for...	211 views Rate it