Extra Thoughts

I've recently been enjoying again the poems of Lizette Woodworth Reese. The poems below include some that I haven't shared in my ear...

When joy alights like a bird on a fence post arrested in fragile flight do not frighten her away. When she comes in the clutch of the he...

The world is a discouraging place. Herewith, for encouragement, a quotation from Lizette Woodworth Reese: Oh, unforgotten things, Gone ou...

I finally got my copy of Lizette Woodworth Reese's Selected Poems through interlibrary loan. [Digression concerning silly bureaucra...

W HEN  I consider Life and its few years—   A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun;   A call to battle, and the battle done   Ere the last...

Things don't really look so good for the United States of America. Need I go into great detail about why? Well, I'm not going to. T...

Just thought of this poem today and wanted to post it. (This does not mean that I am ill. The line "I tune my instrument at the door...

Thanks to Eldest Daughter, here is an excellent recitation of a poem I hadn't encountered before--James Weldon Johnson's "Go Do...