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One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to...
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy...
See how time makes all grief decay.
Source: Life in Death, The Poems of Adelaide...
I know too well the poison and the sting
Of things too sweet.
Source: Per Pacem...
Learning to live with what you're born with
is the process,
the involvement,
the making of a...
Poems come from incomplete knowledge.
Source: With Words, The Motorcycle Betrayal...
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets...
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it...
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first...
Cherish your wilderness.
Source: You Are in Bear Country, The Long Approach,...
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of...
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
Source: In...
Everything pays for growing tame.
Source: You Are in Bear Country, The Long...
With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness...
Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.
I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis good works make the man.
Source: Good...
Whom do we dub as Gentleman?
The Knave, the fool, the brute --
If they but own full tithe of gold,
and Wear a...
Why should we strive, with cynic frown,
To knock their fairy castles down?