“Between Us Now” – by Thomas Hardy
Between Us Now
Between us now and here -
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
Life's flushest feather -
Who see the scenes slide past,
The daytimes...
I Taught Myself To Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova
I taught myself to live simply and wisely,
to look at the sky and pray to God,
and to wander long before evening
to tire my superfluous...
O Captain! My Captain! – By Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port...
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas (Dylan Thomas reads)
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage,...
How To Meditate – by Jack Kerouac
How To Meditate
-lights out-
fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,
the gland inside of my brain discharging
the good glad fluid...
To My Wife – With A Copy Of My Poems by Oscar Wilde
I can write no stately proem
As a prelude to my lay;
From a poet to a poem
I would dare to say.For if of these fallen...
There is another sky – by Emily Dickinson (+Documentary)
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is...
A Girl – by Ezra Pound
The tree has entered my hands,
The sap has ascended my arms,
The tree has grown in my breast-
Downward,
The branches grow out of me, like arms.Tree...
Your Heart – By Leonard Cohen
Your Heart
I told the truth
and look where it got me
I should have written about
the secret rivers
under Toronto
and the trials
of the Faculty Club
but no
I pulled...
24 September 1945 – by Nazim Hikmet
24 September 1945
The most beautiful sea
hasn't been crossed yet.
The most beautiful child
hasn't grown up yet.
Our most beautiful days
we haven't seen yet.
And the most beautiful...
Touching love monologue from ‘Crave’ by Sarah Kane
And I want to play hide-and-seek
and give you my clothes
and tell you I like your shoes
and sit on the steps while you take a...
Love Is More Thicker Than Forget – by E.E. Cummings
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and...