Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast ~
World, you are beautifully drest.
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From the category archives:
Poetry
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went.
~ From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald
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Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past …
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–to feel
Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural
Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. ~ Robinson Jeffers
[Photo: Laguna La Restinga National Park, Isla Margarita, Venezuela]
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Consecration of Place
of Now –
in Silence
in Listening
in Seeing with Open Heart Time’s passing.
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Who would have imagined
winter figs, sweet, rain-laden,
outside my window on a magic
mountain in Big Sur?
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Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe
Me.”
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Two at a Fireside
I built a chimney for a comrade old;
I did the service not for hope or hire:
And then I traveled on in winter’s cold,
Yet all the day I glowed before the fire.
~ Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
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Poetry
She comes like the hush and beauty of the night
And sees too deep for laughter;
Her touch is a vibration and a light
From worlds before and after.
~ Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
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Diagramming Won’t Help This Situation
by Kevin Brown
Grammatical rules have always baffled
me, leaving me wondering whether my
life is transitive or intransitive, if I am the
subject or object of my life, and no one
has been able to provide words to describe
my actions, even if they do end in –ly.
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