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This week I’m just throwing together some short poems that I was liking this week
If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to [Keep reading...]
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I went to the library last week and picked a few Bukowski books. Can I just say now how much I’m falling in love with is work?! I’m sorry to post the same author twice in a row
oh, yes
there are worse things than
being alone
but it [Keep reading...]
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After posting a Bukowski inspired tattoo last week, I read some more of his poems. This one caught my attention.
Be Kind – Charles Bukowski
we are always asked
to understand the other person’s
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.
one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.
but age is the total of
our doing.
they [Keep reading...]
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This has been one of my favorite poems for as long as I can remember
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it [Keep reading...]
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Woops! Almost missed this week’s FreeVerse! After watching MTV’s concert this past weekend called Ulalume, I reread the poem by the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. It’s a little longer than my normal posts…
“Ulalume” by Edgar Allan Poe
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves [Keep reading...]