A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
“A Man Said to the Universe” by Stephen Crane [w/ Audio]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Strong Bow [Haiku]
a hilltop tree,
bowed as if wind-shaped,
won’t budge for a breeze.
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Brief Respite [Haiku]
Sunflowers & Amaranth [Senryū]
sunflowers look up
& follow the sun;
while amaranth bows.
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“The Very Self” by Walter de la Mare [w/ Audio]
Clear eyes, beneath clear brows, gaze out at me,
Clear, true and lovely things therein I see;
Yet mystery, past ev'n naming, takes their place
As mine stay pondering on that much-loved face.
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Lush & Stony [Haiku]
“Gliding O’er All” by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
Gliding o'er all, through all,
Through Nature, Time, and Space,
As a ship on the waters advancing,
The voyage of the soul -- not life alone,
Death, many deaths I'll sing.
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Lily Ring [Haiku]
ring of lily pads:
crowd around where the frog
plopped into pond.
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“I taste a liquor never brewed” (214) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
I taste a liquor never brewed --
From Tankards scooped in Pearl --
Not all the Frankfort Berries
Yield such an Alcohol!
Inebriate of air -- I am --
And Debauchee of Dew --
Reeling -- thro' endless summer days --
From inns of molten blue --
When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove's door --
When Butterflies -- renounce their "drams" --
I shall but drink the more!
Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats --
And Saints -- to windows run --
To see the little Tippler
Leaning against the -- Sun!
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Wistless Sway [Haiku]
bees on wildflowers
ride out the breezes,
in wistless sway.
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