Poem: Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children

From The Writer’s Almanac for today. I am enjoying receiving it in my email. Poem: “Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children,” by John Updike http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/updike.htm, from Americana and Other Poems (Knopf). Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children They will not…

To A Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

I promise I won’t do this all day. I wanted to save these for myself, though. I’ve got Phenomenal Woman on my own site but hadn’t seen this poem before.

Alone by Maya Angelou

School Prayer

I do believe sassenach posted this poem. I loved it, and came across it again today and decided to share it with everyone else.

Invocation by Ingrid Shafer

Someone sent this to me a while back, and I absolutely loved it. I couldn’t find a copy of it anywhere on the web, so I put it on my website with Ms. Shafer’s permission. I guess I should have…

More of Newman’s Poetry

Poetry from Leslea Newman

For sumobabe, who seems to like poems about hips 🙂 Ode to My Hips by Leslea Newman Look out boy these hips are coming through! These hips’ll knock you off your feet if you don’t make room for them to…

Poem: “Jen”

For LJ community DropAndGiveMe50 … Okay, I’m trying. There aren’t 50 words but I’m a first-timer. And it seems too wordy already. I lay quietly basking in your effulgence sweet skin shining my night has no other moon you rule…

“Send Me the Love”

I’ll try not to do this very often, but this passage has been on my mind since I read it in the current issue of World: Not for me is the love that knows no restraint and is like foaming…

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