SONNET 116 – LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS ~BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Poems
COALMINER’S YODEL NO. 1 ~BY PHILIP BARTRAM
Grandfather spoke fondly of Ike
In a breath scuffed by the lung-deep
FROM THE EARLY YEARS ~BY PHILIP BARTRAM
In a leave-rustling breeze,
The child dismounted a broom-stick horse,
BROWN EYES ~BY STEPHEN BAUERMEISTER
Time flies,
When I look into your brown eyes,
Like chocolate sweets,
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY ~BY BILLY COLLINS
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT ~BY DYLAN THOMAS
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day
THE MAN IN THE DOORWAY ~BY PAM LEVARI
There once was a little girl so innocent and free-
One morning she work up
That had all been taken
A LESSON FOR THIS SUNDAY ~BY DEREK WALCOTT
The growing idleness of summer grass
With its frail kites of furious butterflies