Goethe: die and be anew!
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: a wise poem, inspirational and calling for courage. Blessed Longing By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832 Tell no one but […]
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Poetry
Sharper than a scapel, more soothing than a balm, more supportive than a cast,
poetry, as medicine, is the way through.
The Men that Don’t Fit In
The Men that Don’t Fit In by: Robert W. Service There’s A race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t stay still;
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After Apple Picking
by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it,
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Robert Frost – Buddhist
Three poems pointing to eternity. POEM #1 Trial By Existence By Robert Frost Even the bravest that are slain Shall
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bee venom poetry
Bee Stings Cure Arthritis James L. Rosenberg My swollen fingers, gnarled and knotted Cramped awkward with intolerable ache; I bought a farm
To You
To You by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) … Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard! These shows of the East and West are tame compared
For a New Beginning
For a New Beginning (John O’Donohue) In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly
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from Athena
Ode To The Onion Pablo Neruda Onion, luminous flask, your beauty formed petal by petal, crystal scales expanded you and in the secrecy
The original anti-aging medicine
Faust: This senseless witchcraft sickens and disgusts me – and sayest thou that I shall recruit life’s powers, here in this loathsome den of filthy
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Faust before dealing with the devil (can you blame him?)
Everything fails me – every thing – These instruments, do they not all Mock me? Lathe, cylinder, and ring, And cog and wheel – in
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