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Screentime by Hayley DeRoche You want to go viral Want it so bad, A slow drop of honey hovering above your tongue You wait, saliva filling your mouth, eager As you sit alone on the back porch staring at an app someone created to tether you A golden chain disguised as friendly algorithm Somewhere in...

FIRST LESSON by Philip Booth Lie back daughter, let your head be tipped back in the cup of my hand. Gently, and I will hold you. Spread your arms wide, lie out on the stream and look high at the gulls. A dead- man's float is face down. You will dive and swim soon enough where this tidewater ebbs to...

An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too. And more than once: you can't keep weaving all day And undoing it all through the night; Your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight; And along towards morning...

THIS may be one of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspired poems I have read in a long, long time. Columbus and his reputation have too long been abused, misunderstood, lambasted, decried, and rejected by blind or ignorant (or even intentionally malevolent) revisionists who want to paint him as ...

I Hear America Singing By Walt Whitman I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The ...

How this one has managed to go this long without making it to this forum I'll never know: A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things a...

Happy birthday Oliver! Hope you had an amazing 16th birthday, and that you have an amazing 17th year of life!

Hey I haven't been here in forever but I'd like to post this book review I recently wrote for The Island of Dr. Moreau . It's a cute novel ... I just wanted to emphasize this delightful literary observation. Oliver, it's always a pleasure to read your book reviews, but this is definitely the first ...

I am very impressed with the quality of the videography of this video. It's very well done, though most of that is due to Dad's performing a VERY difficult piece with such beautiful ease and grace. I was asked to sing this once on somewhat short notice years ago, but ended up opting for another, eas...

Edited December 20, 2020 to improve the flow of the text as well as to refine the focus of the poem's message.

And today I am grateful that we can visit this thread whenever we want, at any time of the day or year, to be reminded of how blessed we are and how grateful we can be.

I am grateful for the gratitude of others. It helps to remind me that I should be more grateful myself, and by observing and studying the various ways others express their thankfulness, I am better able to refine my own means of so doing. Thanks to our thankful thankers on this Thanksgiving Day! Now...

It is good to know that you think it's a girl too, Jane, though I hope and trust that you also know , or even simply believe that you can come to know , FOR SURE, that this is the case because it DEFINITELY WAS and IS and thank GOODNESS because the world has SUCH A NEED for wonderful girls and that ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IAN!!!!!!!!!

I find it fascinating that they use the out-dated spelling fulness (which would have been appropriate to spelling practices of Joseph Smith's time and region) as opposed to the more current fullness . In some editing circles, the older form is used to suggest completeness or wholeness, and the moder...