Sample Poems
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Friday, July 29th, 2011Jenny Kiss’d Me Jenny kiss’d me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I’m weary, say I’m sad, Say that health and wealth have miss’d me, Say I’m growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me! —Leigh Hunt [...]
The Fidelity of Crows
Monday, May 2nd, 2011The Fidelity of Crows This is the leaving time of year. Summer shade falls in pieces to the ground clearing the sky of everything but flight and discarmined branches, the loyal crows roosting there. They remain to supply us with choices other than the stropping of the wind the fading echoes of geese wings or [...]
“Break of Day,” by Shelly L. Hall
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Break of Day Not the rainbow rooster, but the midnight-feathered crows crack the sky back, split the dark like an egg with their beaks, gaping and loud. And that’s why we call it the break of day, though it’s more like many many doors wrenched open on tight, dry hinges. Listen to them gather the [...]
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