April 12, 2012
Psalm and Lament by Donald Justice In memory of my mother (1897-1974) Hialeah, Florida . The clocks are sorry, the clocks are very sad. One stops, one goes on striking the wrong hours. . And the grass burns terribly in the sun, The grass turns yellow secretly at the roots. . Now suddenly […]
April 11, 2012
The Guest House by Rumi This being human, is the guest house. Every morning a new arrival! . A joy, a lament, a slight. A momentary awareness that comes in as an unexpected visitor. . Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are as a bunch of sorrows, who sweep your house […]
April 10, 2012
“My friend must be a Bird” by Emily Dickinson My friend must be a Bird– Because it flies! Mortal, my friend must be, Because it dies! Barbs has it, like a Bee! Ah, curious friend! Thou puzzlest me! This poem was selected by Callie B-W Poetry Copyright Notice
April 9, 2012
Digging by Seamus Heaney Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. . Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down . Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up twenty years […]
April 8, 2012
On the Road Home by Wallace Stevens It was when I said, “There is no such thing as the truth,” That the grapes seemed fatter. The fox ran out of his hole. . You… You said, “There are many truths, But they are not parts of a truth.” Then the tree, at night, began […]
April 7, 2012
We are very happy to introduce local painter, illustrator, and designer Ronnie Dukes as the next artist in our ongoing exhibition series Local Art @ EPL. From now through the end of April, his visionary collection Vitruvian Hero: Act I will be on display on the 2nd floor of EPL’s Main Branch. Inspired by Da […]
April 7, 2012
When I Was One-and-Twenty by A.E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.” But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. . When I […]
April 6, 2012
Smile on the Edge by Nancy Etchemendy Don’t tell me not to smile when I contemplate the edge. You don’t know my mind, the flavor of the wind on this rocky plateau, how the horse between my thighs, povrecito, wants only to be free, how it strains in its rage and sorrow toward this darkness […]
April 5, 2012
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. This poem was selected by Jeff B. (Readers’ […]
April 4, 2012
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? by William Butler Yeats Why should not old men be mad? Some have known a likely lad That had a sound fly-fisher’s wrist Turn to a drunken journalist; A girl that knew all Dante once Live to bear children to a dunce; A Helen of social welfare dream, […]
