Do all the good you can,By all the means you can,In all the ways you can,In all the places you can,At all the times you can,To all the people you can,As long as ever you can. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Category Archives: poem
On existence and the universe
I picked up a book called A Treasury of Favorite Poems somewhere along the way — it’s a big book with, oddly, no indication who selected or edited the poetry — and last weekend I read Stephen Crane’s “War is Kind,” which turned out to be not a single 15-page poem but most of anContinue reading “On existence and the universe”
There was a man with tongue of wood
There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing.And in truth it was lamentable.But there was one who heardThe clip-clapper of this tongue of woodAnd knew what the manWished to sing,And with that the singer was content. — Stephen Crane, from War is Kind
On the 944th day of the daily blogging challenge
Really bad haiku masquerading as a post? Feels like I’m cheating.
Invocation of the Hack
Inspire me, O Muse, Reach into my heart and pull out a song,Or a poem of great beauty and truth and suchThat stirs the souls of all who hearAnd lives forever,Or at least a few minutes,Or maybe long enough for the readerTo think, “Huh. That wasn’t too bad.” (-2,425/24,230)
The exhaustion of fullness
I looked this way and that, in hopes of seeing what to do next.There were things to do everywhere I looked,but none of them said “Do me first!”and all of them said “Do me first!”and I couldn’t choose. They all looked important; they all looked meaningless.And most of all, I was looking for meaning.Which couldContinue reading “The exhaustion of fullness”
Love anyway
When weariness overtakes you And your fuse is short, Love anyway. When the slap of reality hurts So bad you want to lash back, Love anyway. When the loss is so deep You can’t see straight, Love anyway. When you’re tempted to quit And go running away forever, Love anyway. That’sContinue reading “Love anyway”