For Ashley & Chris on their wedding day Poetry: All I Ever Wanted by Katie FordWhen I thought it was right to name my desires,What I wanted of life, they seemed to turnLike bleating sheep, not to me, who could have beenA caring, if unskilled, shepherd, but to the boxed-in hillsRead More Lyrical: Open Window …
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Care Package for Friday, June 11, 2021
Poetry: My Song by Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.I sang me a song, a tiny song, A song that was sweet to my soul,And set it a-float on the sea of chance In search of a happy goal.Read More Lyrical: Your Song by Elton JohnI hope you don’t mind/That I put down in the words/How wonderful …
Care Package for Thursday, June 10, 2021
Poetry: The Vista by C. Dale YoungNot tenderness in the eye but the brute needto see accurately: over the ridge on a traildeep in Tennessee, the great poet looked out and sawthe vista that confederate soldiers sawas they rode over the edge rather than surrender.Read More Lyrical: I Can See For Miles by Matthew Sweet …
Care Package for Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Poetry: Jogging with Oscar by Walt McDonaldWhen I take my dachshund jogging, boys and widows gawkand stop tossing balls or lopping limbs off shrubs. They calland point at long, pot-bellied Oscar trotting like a rocker horse,tongue wagging, dragging on grass when he hops over skateboards,Read More (https://poets.org/poem/jogging-oscar) Lyrical: Della and the Dealer by Hoyt AxtonThe …
Care Package for Sunday, June 6, 2021
Poetry: Driver Lost by Mark Van DorenRoads are flowing everywhere In the night, beneath the moon.But one of them the homing mare Is certain of; and soonRead More Lyrical: Silver Road by Sarah HarmerI’ll be way down the silver road, I’ll go/Where the moon has it lit up/Turn off your headlights and go …