Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Contribute your thoughts to the community by commenting below. The Present Crisis James Russell Lowell WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west, And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: Poem by Tom Clark
September 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Poem Tom Clark Like musical instruments Abandoned in a field The parts of your feelings Are starting to know a quiet The pure conversion of your Life into art seems destined Never to occur You don't mind You feel … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: How to Be Alone by Tanya Davis
September 5, 2010 by 1 Comment
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Sunday Poem: The Country of Marriage by Wendell Berry
August 29, 2010 by 1 Comment
Contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. The Country of Marriage Wendell Berry I. I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs of birds opening around you as you walk. You are holding in your body the … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: The Quiet Animal by Julia Cameron
August 22, 2010 by 1 Comment
Contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. The Quiet Animal Julia Cameron Oh quiet animal, sleeping, What dreams lie within your cells? What ages brought you here Through coal and ice? Eye twitch, lip curl-- Blood dreams again. Blood is always dreaming. Scheming to … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: Ash Wednesday By T.S. Eliot
August 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Ash Wednesday T.S. Eliot Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: Thoughts Are Things By Henry Van Dyke
August 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Thoughts Are Things Henry Van Dyke I hold it true that thoughts are things; They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings; And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results, or ill. That which we call our secret … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: The Spinning World by Lacey Roop
August 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Lacey Roop is a well-known slam poet in Austin, Texas. Read more of her poetry here. The Spinning World Lacey Roop And some have this habit of looking out of windows and calling it impossible. They look forward to sleeping so … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: “Totally like whatever, you know?” by Taylor Mali
July 25, 2010 by 1 Comment
Contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Totally like whatever, you know? Taylor Mali In case you hadn't noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know what you're talking about? Or believe strongly in what you're saying? Invisible question marks and … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: Opportunity by Edward Rowland Sill
July 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Please contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Opportunity Edward Rowland Sill THIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:-- There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon … [Read more...]
