Periodically my mother quotes this great Emerson line sans the "Thou must bleed for me" part. It is great but each time I intend t...

I saw this posted on a high school classmate's Facebook page earlier this week and it has stuck with me since then. "The dice of...

Today I turned 47 years old/young. My little brother by another mother composed this poem to celebrate this milestone. It contains allusions...

The past couple of weeks I have become addicted to the new HBO series Westworld  whose first season I finished watching tonight. I have long...

Earlier today in my post " Seawatching and Waiting " I asked my reader's help in finding the title and author of a poem accomp...

I am haunted by the poem displayed during the moody and brooding prelude segment of this Danish DeejayValentin -remixed progressive house t...

While doing research for my senior project I encountered this poem entitled " The Second Coming " by W.B. Yeats . I vaguely rememb...

My friend and retired career firefighters Rick Bates of Cameron Park whose playground up Highway 50 until the advent of the ongoing King F...

A particular part of a particular poem by William Butler Yeats known to most people as W.B. Yeats has been echoing through my thoughts in r...

My late friend David Brooks , a.k.a. " Studebaker Dave " to so many and whom I christened " Klau Mine Dave " loved poetr...

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However", replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me ...

High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth  And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;  Sunward I’ve climbed, and jo...

I know that there shall never be An ignoramus just like me. Who roams the hills both night and day To pick up rocks that do not pay....