by admin | May 25, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
When I hear them callin the morning, beforeI am quite awake,my bed is already travelingthe daily rainbow,the arc toward evening;and the birds, leadingtheir own discreet livesof hunger and watchfulness,are with me all the way,always a little ahead of mein the...
by admin | May 19, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
In the tides of life and actionI rise and descendand fling the shuttle back and forth.The cradle and the grave,a perennial sea,a flickering fabric,a glowing life,I toil at the whirring loom of timeand weave the godhead’s living vesture.
by admin | May 17, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
I taste a liquor never brewed –From Tankards scooped in Pearl –Not all the Vats upon the RhineYield such an Alcohol!Inebriate of Air — am I –And Debauchee of Dew –Reeling — thro endless summer days –From inns of Molten Blue...
by admin | May 16, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose,Enfold me in my hour of hours; where thoseWho sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre,Or in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stirAnd tumult of defeated dreams; and deepAmong pale eyelids, heavy with the sleepMen have named beauty. Thy...
by admin | May 14, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
“If the dear faculty of sight should fail,Still, it may be allowed me to rememberWhat visionary powers of eye and soulIn youth were mine; when, stationed on the topOf some huge hill–expectant, I beheldThe sun rise up, from distant climes returnedDarkness...
by admin | May 9, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Try to be done nowwith deliberately provocative actions and sales statistics,brunches and gas ovens,be done with fashion shows and horoscopes,military parades, architectural contests, and the rows of triple traffic lights.Come through all that and be throughwith...
