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Carentan O Carentan BY LOUIS SIMPSON Trees in the old days used to stand And shape a shady lane Where lovers wandered hand in hand Who c...

A Reminiscence BY ANNE BRONTË YES, thou art gone! and never more Thy sunny smile shall gladden me; But I may pass the old church door,...

The War in the Air BY HOWARD NEMEROV For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead, Who rarely bothered coming home to die But simply staye...

The Performance BY JAMES L. DICKEY The last time I saw Donald Armstrong He was staggering oddly off into the sun, Going down, off the Ph...

Mother and Poet BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the west by the...

For a War Memorial BY G. K. CHESTERTON (SUGGESTED INSCRIPTION PROBABLY NOT SUGGESTED BY THE COMMITTEE) The hucksters haggle in the mart The ...

Tommy by Rudyard Kipling I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red...

To Meditate To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are be...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. Yo...

I love what Gary Snyder says about poetry and meditation : A year or so later, in Kyoto, I asked my teacher Oda Sesso Roshi, "Sometime...

An interesting conversation with a dear friend has had me thinking for a few weeks about mystical experience . And one of the things that I...

May it be so for you.

Wow. That was a long time ago.

Maybe it won't be helpful at all, but on the off chance that someone who has to talk to the press ever needs to actually explain "w...

It's been a while since I've done one of these posts, but apparently there's still a need to discuss framing when Pagans deal wi...

So, lawyerly disqualifiers first, I don't know Liona Rowan, but this survey was passed to me by a local Wiccan I know well. Rowan is co...

You have to click here to see today's Sunday Ballet Blogging (embedding has been "disabled"), but you should definitely go ah...