The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole
This is one of RT’s favorite poems. He just asked me to look it up on the internet – within seconds I had it and read it aloud to him. I wanted to include it here, too. The Bridge Builder An old man,...
View ArticleThe Light
This is a poem my mother wrote. Here’s her story about it: A few years before my husband died, we bought a cemetery lot in Conyers where his father and grandparents were burried. Charles was still...
View Article“Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Don’t you just love this poem? LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever, With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the...
View Article“Good Morning, Dear Students” (An April Fools poem to share with students)
April Fools’ Day is my least favorite day of the school year. I’m always happy when the date lands on a weekend. For a teacher, it’s a matter of trying to respond appropriately to “There’s a spider on...
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I love thee freely – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In 1846 Elizabeth Barrett met Robert Browning. She was a British poet and was 40 years old at the time. Browning was a renowned man of letter. Barrett had injured her spine in a fall and was a...
View ArticleRT’s poem to me
This evening RT wrote a poem to me. Here it is: Thank God I Saw You My Beautiful One First, you caught my eye, With your long blonde hair Emerald eyes and shapely legs. You were my first real love And...
View ArticlePoem – What’s Funny About That?
Here’s a poem RT wrote this morning. I like it! What’s Funny About That? Funny is funny. No explanation needed. When funny happens, Laughter explodes. What’s funny is not a question to ask, If it is,...
View ArticlePoem – What’s Deep?
RT’s on a poetry kick lately. Here’s another of this morning’s poems: What’s deep? Deep is not defined by inches or feet. Deep can get deeper and deepest Without a rule to check it out. A well that is...
View Article“Random Cabin” might call
This morning I mentioned to RT that he had some comments on the poems of his that I had published here a few days ago – here, here and here. After I read the comments to him, he said, “Random Cabin”...
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Today You Appeared (a poem)
Another poem by RT – about me. I think it’s pretty cool to be almost 60 years old and still having my man writing poems about me. There may be snow on the roof (figuratively speaking) but there’s...
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