Comet Kohotek (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A forgotten bit of space dust heralded before its fizzle but a wealth, a treasure for this son, sharing a ...
A forgotten bit of space dust heralded before its fizzle but a wealth, a treasure for this son, sharing a ...
Eight silent canoes Pushed off onto the still waters At 2am on a July night. The full moon and stars ...
Two fish Under the spell Of the fisherman. One in the bucket One on the line, Hook deep into flesh. ...
Some have heard of "fuzzy logic", that "powerful problem-solving methodology (blah, blah, blah) ." (no, not just what Shanequa or ...
After the cutting before the baling a working field waits for the late harvest Narrow rows of green, turning to ...
A little peach in the orchard grew,-- A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by ...
I ain't afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice, An' things 'at girls are skeered uv ...
When in the halcyon days of old, I was a little tyke, I used to fish in pickerel ponds for ...
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powers Has come across the ocean To harm this land of ours; ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
To view his stately Walks and Groves, A Man of Pow'r and Place Was hast'ning on; but as he roves, ...
Within a Meadow, on the way, A sordid Churl resolv'd to stay, And give his Horse a Bite; Purloining so ...
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
I must return to that valley of vision, gather again to me flocks, crescent moon and star; God - let ...
To every man His treehouse, A green splice in the humping years, Spartan with narrow cot And prickly door. To ...
You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father, who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers. I've had ...
Set not thy foot on graves; Hear what wine and roses say; The mountain chase, the summer waves, The crowded ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood -- At a Window facing West -- Roughest Air -- ...
If I don't write something good tonight I will sleep without the comforting Canopus of deep believers, if I sleep ...
Gnashing teeth, a grinding meet of molars crashing cuspid on cuspid and the fracture of a piece, of pressure not ...
The symbols that we use are T shirts of the dead thoughts of corpses without heads, a rictus without sound ...
Resurgent greens and stronger hues combined within the colours in-between will spring again, the reddish brown has nearly gone and ...
Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling ...
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swiftewd greyhound follow, Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard ...
Holy Lord God! I love Thy truth, Nor dare Thy least commandment slight; Yet pierced by sin the serpent's tooth, ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories