I haven't added a poem here in a while, and I've seen some good ones lately. Here's one I found in a post by Parker Palmer at the On Being site [http://www.onbeing.org/blog/hoping-to-rekindle-my-memory/6692]. My appreciation for Billy Collins grows…
Poetry found in New York City's subway. You can see more of the discoveries at [365 Day Subway: Poems by New Yorkers](http://www.poemsbynewyorkers.com)…
> In the Year 1600, only one man dared to dream of an infinite cosmos... #cosmos [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cosmos&src=hash] — COSMOS (@COSMOSonTV) March 10, 2014 [https://twitter.com/COSMOSonTV/statuses/442832085183889408] Neil deGrasse Tyson spent a significant amount of time taolking about Giordano Bruno and…
Robert Frost published Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening on this day in 1923. That's a good reason to stop for a minute and celebrate the work (and give thanks that it's no longer snowy here). The Writers Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?…
Ancient Music [http://izquotes.com/quote/375053] Not quite the graphic rendering I hoped for (somewhere I have a worn copy of an editorial cartoon I've carried around since I lived in Cleveland), but perfect for yet another cold snowy day on the east coast. Representative Poetry [http:…
Who'd have thought there was poem about a bagel? How could I not notice when I'm using a bread-baking theme? By David Ignatow; given today at The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/02/23]. > I stopped to pick…
Half the Truth, the poem Grrison Keillor read on The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/02/19] yesterday, contains this lines > We make love without rushing and find ourselves afterward with someone we know well. Time to be what we are getting…
I'm being drawn more deepy into Eliot's Daniel Deronda and was pleased to read this in Chapter XIX. > under his [Daniel's] calm and somewhat self-repressed exterior there was a fervor which made him easily find poetry and romance among the events of every-day…