Tales From Shangri-La

" Nirvana " by Charles Bukowski, read by Tom Waits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVVzCURucaA http://talesfromshangri-la.blo...

This is one of the most famous of Kipling's works -- and one of my most favorite poems. It explains what character looks like in daily l...

This poem was written by Walt Whitman for Abraham Lincoln at his death. I read it at the funeral of my grandfather, a retired Navy Captain a...

...written and read by Robert Frost -- read when he was an older man. Whose woods these are I think I know

Even the workaday and practical arm Becomes all love for love's sake to the lover. If this is nature's thrift, love thrives on it...

My sister-in-law sent me this poem, and I love it. My Grandparents’ Generation by  Faith Shearin They are taking so many things w...

A narrow fellow in the grass  BY  EMILY DICKINSON A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him—did you ...

The Pasture I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water cl...

(really about grieving) Spring and Fall to a young child MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke t...

Legend says that St. Patrick wrote the words which Cecil Alexander made into an English hymn. Here is part of it: I bind unto myself today...

The below is a poem recently handed to my father by his godmother, the 90 year old Irma Faye Polk of Iowa. Her mother, Mamie Hatten, copied ...

An Experiment Degustatory Ogden Nash A gourmet challenged me to eat A tiny bit of rattlesnake meat, Remarking, "Don't look so horro...