Today’s Poem ~ Life
Life Henry Van Dyke Let me but live my life from year to year, With forward face and unreluctant soul; Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal; Not mourning…
Love, Laugh, and Happiness
Life Henry Van Dyke Let me but live my life from year to year, With forward face and unreluctant soul; Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal; Not mourning…
The Dark Night of the Soul St John Of the Cross On a dark night, Kindled in love with yearnings–oh, happy chance!– I went forth without being observed, My house…
Fame John Keats FAME, like a wayward girl, will still be coy To those who woo her with too slavish knees, But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy, And dotes…
Our Prayer of Thanks Carl Sandburg For the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening on the weeds at the river, Our prayer of thanks. For the laughter…
Winds of Fate Ella Wheeler Wilcox One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales…
Hard is the Journey Li Po Gold vessels of fine wines, thousands a gallon, Jade dishes of rare meats, costing more thousands, I lay my chopsticks down, no more can…
The Hope of Loving Meister Eckhart What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure? I think it is the hope of loving, or being loved. I heard a fable…
Song of The Flower Khalil Gibran I am a kind word uttered and repeated By the voice of Nature; I am a star fallen from the Blue tent upon the…
On Death Khalil Gibran You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The owl whose night-bound…
We don’t know what the next moment will bring. Worrying about it won’t help. Fearlessly know you can handle it. You were designed for it. Whatever it is you are…