She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron (George Gordon)

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet expr...

Woman Work Poem by Maya Angelou

I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine

Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead by William Shakespeare

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell; 
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so, 
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, 
If thinking on me t...

Psalm 23 (ESV)

The Lord Is My Shepherd

A Psalm of David.

1    The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
 2     He makes me lie down in green pastures.
 He leads me beside still waters.
 3     He restores my soul.
 He leads me in paths of righteousness
     for his name's sake.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
     I will fear no evil,
 for you are with me;
 ...

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? By William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or natu...

Still I Rise, By Maya Angelou 

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you wan...

Baby Jesus, Child Of Love, By Marcia A. Newton

Baby Jesus, child of love,
 born of Mary, child of God,
 born this night to bring us light,
 God with us, Emmanuel.
 
 Bells ring out, a child is born.
 Angels sing out, "Christ the Lord!"
 All on Earth rejoice His birth,
 a Child of love, the Promised One.
 
 Hope was born this silent night,
 dark no more, eternal light.<...

The Magi Visit the Messiah Matthew 2:1-12

1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship Him.”

3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of th...

Luke 2 - The Birth of Jesus Christ, The Shepherds and the Angels

1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he w...

The Paradoxical Commandments, By Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.
 If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.
 If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.
 The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.
 Honesty and frankne...

The day following Thanksgiving— commonly referred to as Black Friday— has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the United States. National chain stores traditionally offer limited money-saving specials on a wide variety of goods in an effort to lure shoppers into stores while offering similar deals online.  (www.britannica.com)

Poems are green and Poetry is mean.
-Poetry Beast

Ple...

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, By: Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks, 
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls 
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thou...

Good Timber, By Douglas Malloch 

The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never had to toil
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly...

Thanksgiving Day, By Thomas Frederick Young

God of the harvest, once again
Our joyful tones we raise,
For all Thy goodness, day by day,
We give Thee thankful praise.
With blessings rich, from fertile field,
And gifts from fruitful tree,
We wish, this day, our thanks to yield
With earnest hearts, to Thee.
We plough'd the ground, we sow'd the seed,
But Thou didst send the rain

 For years, people have debated whether punishing children works, whether it corrects their behaviors without having any negative long-term consequences. Spanking is one such form of discipline. Does spanking children work? 
(www.psychologytoday.com)

Poems are green and Poetry is mean.
-Poetry Beast

Please accept my endless gratitude,
I'm tickled pink,
You're a gift!
Thank you for y...

Thanksgiving, By, Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We walk on starry fields of white
And do not see the daisies;
For blessings common in our sight
We rarely offer praises.
We sigh for some supreme delight
To crown our lives with splendor,
And quite ignore our daily store
Of pleasures sweet and tender.
 
Our cares are bold and push their way
Upon our thought and feeling.
They hang about us all...

The Serenity Prayer, By Reinhold Niebuhr

God,  give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
 Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other. 

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as ...