Thank You William Cullen Bryant |
THANATOPSIS by: William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) O him who in the love of Nature holds ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:50:00 GMT |
Thank You Brendan Constantine |
ONE MILLION YEARS BC The oceans were hot and spat toothy fish into the air like olive pits. Mountains drooled florescent paint, valleys filled with loose change ...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:54:00 GMT |
Thank You William Shakespeare |
Terms Shakespeare Coined: Full circle Foregone conclusion Brave new world Bated breath Neither rhyme nor reason Strange bedfellows A spotless reputation Method in the madness Arch-villain Well-bredTh...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:48:00 GMT |
Thank You Robert Lowell |
Skunk Hour Nautilus Island's hermitheiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage;her sheep still graze above the sea.Her son's a bishop. Her farmeris first selectman in our village,she's ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:13:00 GMT |
Thank You William Blake |
The Tyger Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dar...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:07:00 GMT |
Thank You Richard Pryor |
I See Black PeopleI've seen all kinds of black people light skin porters black skin caddies red boned bus drivers fat red cooks and maids shiny brown skinned doctors tinny cigar shaped whiskey salesme...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:49:00 GMT |
Thank You Sylvia Plath |
Mad Girl's Love Song
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:57:00 GMT |
Thank You Benjamin Rosenbaum |
The Orange
An orange ruled the world.
It was an unexpected thing, the temporary abdication of Heavenly Providence, entrusting the whole matter to a simple orange.
The orange, in a grove in Florida, ...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:02:00 GMT |
Thank You Kermit |
Why are there so many songs about rainbowsAnd what's on the other side?Rainbows are visions, but only illusions,And rainbows have nothing to hide.So we've been told and some choose to believe itI know...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:16:00 GMT |
Thank You Allen Ginsberg |
A Supermarket in California
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, forI walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headacheself-conscious looking at the full moon. ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:47:00 GMT |
