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Song of the Open Road
Song of the Open Road (stanzas 1 and 17) by Walt Whitman 1 Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading wherever I...
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I Saw Two Birds
I Saw Two Birds by Hafiz as translated by Daniel Ladinsky Both of our mouths Can fit upon this flute I carry. My music will sound So much sweeter that way. With your breath and my breath Poking each...
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Long at Sea
Long at Sea by em claire I left my home so long ago now that I would not recognize my own face. I constructed the Boat of My Life and I set out into the open sea, waving to all who knew that the seas...
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Freedom’s Plow
In honor of Memorial Day, I am sharing a piece of patriotic writing from a unique and powerful American voice, Langston Hughes. Below are the last three stanzas of the poem, you can find the entirety...
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The Grass
The Grass by Emily Dickinson The grass so little has to do – A sphere of simple green, With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain, And stir all day to pretty tunes The breezes fetch along,...
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Sonnet 18
Always a classic… Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too...
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July 4th – On the Pulse of Morning
Lovely aerial photo of Monticello from one of my favorite Southern magazines - Garden&Gun In honor of the holiday weekend I am posting one of the most memorable inaugural poems I have heard in my...
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Winged Energy of Delight
A pollen dusted Bumblebee on the Bee Balm in my garden. Winged Energy of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood’s dark abysses, now beyond your...
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Food
Jam at the Farmer's Market - made by the mother of a high school friend.Food by Suman Mahmood Could someone put some food on my plate? Make me something; it doesn’t have to be great Something form...
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If
The Olympic torch room in the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY. Ali was inspired by the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling. If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing...
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