Sonnet One From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to... Continue Reading →
The Rainbow Bridge by an Unknown Author
Our final poem is dedicated to a friend who recently lost a beloved friend and companion and asked to share this with all who have known the loss of a special part of their family. The Rainbow Bridge Just this side of heaven is a place called the Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that... Continue Reading →
The Little Old Table by Thomas Hardy
Creak, little wood thing, creak, When I touch you with elbow or knee; That is the way you speak Of one who gave you to me! You, little table, she brought - Brought me with her own hand, As she looked at me with a thought That I did not understand. - Whoever owns it... Continue Reading →
Life is Bitter by William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Life is bitter. All the faces of the years, Young and old, are grey with travail and with tears. Must we only wake to toil, to tire, to weep? In the sun, among the leaves, upon the flowers, Slumber stills to dreamy death the heavy hours . . . Let me sleep. Riches won but... Continue Reading →
This is Just to Say (1934) – a poem by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten the plums That were in the icebox And which you were probably Saving for breakfast Forgive me They were delicious So sweet And so cold - William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was an American poem and doctor. Williams was the winner of both the National Book Award for Poetry and... Continue Reading →
The Prize Cat by E.J. Pratt
Pure blood domestic, guaranteed, Soft-mannered, musical in purr, The ribbon had declared the breed, Gentility was in the fur Such feline culture in the gads No anger ever arched her back-- What distance since those velvet pads Departed from the leopard's track! And when I mused how Time had thinned The jungle strains within the... Continue Reading →
One Flower – a Haiku by Jack Kerouac
One flower on the cliffside Nodding at the canyon Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), a novelist, poet, painter
Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
O young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm’d, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar. He... Continue Reading →
Three Anonymous Limericks
There was a young woman named Kite, Whose speed was much faster than light, She set out one day, In a relative way, And returned on the previous night. Poems, what a silly thing. They're meaningless and boring, Pointless and rhyme. Who wastes their time, Thinking up ludicrous writing. There once was a grumpy dog,... Continue Reading →
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth by David Rosenthal ( A Poem for Earth Day)
Trees need not walk the earth For beauty or for bread; Beauty will come to them Where they stand. Here among the children of the sap Is no pride of ancestry: A birch may wear no less the morning Than an oak. Here are no heirlooms Save those of loveliness, In which each tree Is... Continue Reading →
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