Christina Rossetti
8th Annual Valentine’s Day Poem Blitz
Valentine’s Day spending is up 6% this year over last even though fewer people are celebrating. Sad! Poems, of course, are the perfect antidote to the menace of all-consuming consumerism slouching towards Bethlehem. Poems cost nothing to give and last forever. Here’s a few to share with your lover, your mother, your friend or […]
MoreFifth annual love-fest
Time for the fifth annual Poem Elf Valentine’s Day Binge. Valentine’s Day has always been one of my favorite holidays, providing good reason to eat chocolate, tell people close to me that I love them, and hide lovely poems around town. On with the celebration! In a dark romantic bar with plenty of private […]
MoreFull of love for mothers, all of them
[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] by Christina Rossetti Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome Has many sonnets: so here now shall be One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee […]
MoreDon’t go confidently in the direction of your dreams
MIRAGE by: Christina Rossetti THE hope I dreamed of was a dream, Was but a dream; and now I wake Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, For a dream’s sake. I hang my harp upon a tree, A weeping willow in a lake; I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and […]
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