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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: November 2014
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. November 2014 Poetry Page. 8220;You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.”. Edgar A. Guest. POEM OF THE MONTH. A FLASH AND A CLICK. James M. Tilton. My aunt is one of those women. Who likes cheap crafts. Not just one portrait,. My grandma is...
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: November 2013
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Monday, November 4, 2013. November 2013 Poetry Page. 8220;The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.". POEM OF THE MONTH. When you pitch down the stairs on your nose. Or crash to the floor and can’t turn over. I’m thankful there are only three steps. Nothing broke and I can haul you to a chair. When you tangle in your walker. Body jammed against the door. And I take it away.
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: April 2015
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Monday, April 6, 2015. April 2015 Poetry Page. 8220;OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh. POEM OF THE MONTH. Devoted to John Nash,.
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: June 2014
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Wednesday, June 4, 2014. June 2014 Poetry Page. This is a brief life,. But in its brevity. Some splendid moments,. POEM OF THE MONTH. DREAMS OF LONG AGO. We were hiking on different trails many years ago. Leading our little grandkids, five of them in tow. On dark shadowed paths we would walk and sing. Of Hansel and Gretel and birds on the wing. We scattered breadcrumbs along the pathways. So woodland inhabitants would stop and graze. They picked up small limbs from the trees.
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: December 2013
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Wednesday, December 4, 2013. December 2013 Poetry Page. 8220;Somehow not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad,. The more of your heart's possessing. Returns to make you glad.". POEM OF THE MONTH. A VISIT FROM SANTA. The month before Christmas and all through the mall. The shoppers were whining, the money was gone. Have a Merry Christ...
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: August 2014
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Monday, August 4, 2014. August 2014 Poetry Page. 8220;Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music. Are destroyed or flourish.”. POEM OF THE MONTH. When he was tanned. A rich dark copper. And his eyes burned ice-fire blue,. When his hair and beard. Were thick, brimm’d with adventure. Salt spray and new sunshine,. He’d be seen hitching ’long Coast Hwy,. Tattered rucksack shouldered over,. A vers...
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: January 2015
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Sunday, January 4, 2015. January 2015 Poetry Page. 8220;Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”. The editors of Long Story Short are proud to announce that. 8220;TEACH ME”. James G. Piatt. Has been selected the LSS Poem of the Year. Congratulations, James! Undig...
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: April 2015 Poetry Page
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Monday, April 6, 2015. April 2015 Poetry Page. 8220;OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh. POEM OF THE MONTH. Devoted to John Nash,.
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE: October 2014
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LONG STORY SHORT: POETRY PAGE. Thursday, October 2, 2014. October 2014 Poetry Page. Look not mournfully into the past,—it comes not back again; wisely improve the present,—it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”. POEM OF THE MONTH. Down the hill, through the woods,. At the end of a root-tricky path. Lay a swamp the town boys. Claimed as their own. My friend and I craved to know. What fascinated them,. Wanted a look at their sacred treehouse,. Is a former psy...
