Excellent advice
I need not spend any more of my limited time at a mythical party. What I need to do is to tend to my own conspiracies and make a party of...
It's a puzzle!
Vyizder Zomenimor Orziz Assiz Zanzer R Orziz?
Tennessee Williams at his very best
Nonno’s Poem From The Night of the Iguana Tennessee Williams How calmly does the olive branch Observe the sky begin to blanch Without a...
If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter...
If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel...
An inspiring idea from von Goethe
All forces strive forward to work far and wide, To live and grow and ever expand; Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the...
From Mr. Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens
How poetry affects titles
Ernest Christopher Dowson has, with his poetry, inspired the title of a famous novel and its equally famous film: Gone With The Wind ,...
My favorite Dowson poem
Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy...
A Favorite Poem
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they...