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 ...

To Be In Love, By Gwendolyn Brooks

To be in love 
 Is to touch with a lighter hand. 
 In yourself you stretch, you are well. 
 You look at things 
 Through his eyes. 
 A cardinal is red. 
 A sky is blue. 
 Suddenly you know he knows too. 
 He is not there but 
 You know you are tasting together 
 The winter, or a light spring weather. 
 His hand to take your hand is overmuch. 

Surviving, By Amanda Gorman

These words need not be red for our blood to run 
through them.
When tragedy threatens to end us, we are flooded 
by what is felt;
Our faces fluctuating, warped like an acre passing 
Seasons. Perhaps the years are plotted & planned
Just like seeds in a fresh-plowed field.
When we dream, we act only with instinct.
We might not be fully sure of all that we are. ...

Isaiah 6:10  Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

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 your time and attention.
It's a b...

Domestic violence takes place in our nation every minute of every day, occurring just about every 15 seconds. Most Americans don’t realize just how real domestic violence is and how many lives are affected by it. Most of these cases are left behind closed doors. That’s why the Domestic Violence Awareness Month was introduced to not only educate and raise that awareness but bring the support and strength that domestic violence victi...

Revised Version of Do not go gentle into that good night. By: Dylan Thomas

Please go gentle into that good night,
Old age shouldn’t burn and rave at close of day;
Don’t rage, why rage against the dying of the light?
 
 Wise men at their end look forward to that heavenly light,
Their lives will no longer be filled with pain and strife,
They will go gentle into that good night.
 
Good men, the...