Category Archives: Daily Offerings
Meaning
Meaning If a life needn’t be useful to be meaningful, Then maybe a life of sunbathing on a beach Can be thought of as meaningful for at least a few, The few, say, who view the sun as a … Continue reading
With Music
With Music Dear, did we meet in some dim yesterday? I half remember how the birds were mute Among green leaves and tulip-tinted fruit, And on the grass, beside a stream, we lay In early twilight; faintly, far … Continue reading
i thank You God for most this amazing
i thank You God for most this amazing i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky: and for everything which is natural which is … Continue reading
Tax Day Limericks!!
There was a young fellow from Boise Who at times was exceedingly noise. So his friends’ joy increased When he moved way back east To what people in Brooklyn called Joise. (John Straley) A lusty young wench … Continue reading
Meeting at Night The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And … Continue reading
At a Dinner Party
At a Dinner Party With fruit and flowers the board is decked, The wine and laughter flow; I’ll not complain — could one expect So dull a world to know? You look across the fruit and flowers, … Continue reading
Provisions
Provisions What should we have taken with us? We never could decide on that; or what to wear, or at what time of year we should make the journey So here we are in thin raincoats and rubber boots On … Continue reading
I Wish in the City of Your Heart
I Wish in the City of Your Heart I wish in the city of your heart you would let me be the street where you walk when you are most yourself. I imagine the houses: It has been raining, … Continue reading
Darling Coffee The periodic pleasure of small happenings is upon us – at the farmer’s market snow glinting in heaps, a cardinal its chest puffed out, bloodshod above the piles of awnings, passion’s proclivities; you picking up a sweet potato … Continue reading
You See I Want a Lot
You See I Want a Lot You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing, and … Continue reading