3:47 - don't forget to unmute video in lower right-hand corner 4th of July Flashback! Don't miss this Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular where Amanda Gorman delivers this dynamic performance of her poem “Believer’s Hymn for the Republic.” Believer's … [Read more...]
Poetry: Can This Be Paradise? Reznikoff
As I was wandering with my unhappy thoughts, I looked and saw that I had come into a sunny place— familiar and yet strange. "Where am I?" I asked a stranger. "Paradise." "Can this be Paradise?" I asked, surprised, for there were motor … [Read more...]
Poem: I am an American
I owe you no apologies, nor will I accept those apologies made for me by others. If you dislike me, you dislike me not for what I am, but for what you are not. By my own sweat I have created a lifestyle which I desire for all men. To the world, … [Read more...]
Prayer: Run, Ullie-Kay
dear child. you will need to stop running in order to feel the silence, and you will need to feel the silence in order to face the fear. and you will need to face the fear in order to undo its grip in order to run. but darling, run freely, not away. … [Read more...]
Poetry: Reason, Season, Lifetime Poem
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. When someone is in your life for a reason it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They … [Read more...]
Poetry: Hate is a Virus, Gorman
A virus is fought inside us. While violence is fought among us. In both, our triumph is not in conquering others, But conquering the most destructive agents &instincts that we carry Within our mortal forms. Hate is a virus. A … [Read more...]
Poem: Train of Life, Hardin
Some folks ride the train of life Looking out the rear, Watching miles of life roll by, And marking every year. They sit in sad remembrance, Of wasted days gone by, And curse their life for what it was, And hang their head and cry. But I … [Read more...]
Poetry: Being Human
When we peel away the elements that divide us, religion (man-made), skin color, ethnicities, politics, we end up where we started. Being human. When we acknowledge each other as fellow human beings instead of our self-imposed … [Read more...]
Poetry: The Gate of the Year
And, I said to the man who stood at the gate: Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied. Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known … [Read more...]
Poem: Love is Kind
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. 'Twas not given for thee alone. Pass it on. Let it travel down the years. Let it wipe another's tears Till in heaven the deed appears. Pass it on. Henry Burton … [Read more...]