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Today’s Poem: Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

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Morning Song

Sylvia Plath

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival.  New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety.  We stand round blankly as walls.

I’m no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind’s hand.

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses.  I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s.  The window square

Whitens and swallows its dull stars.  And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.

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Today’s Poem: Morning Prayer by Ogden Nash

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Morning Prayer

Ogden Nash

Now another day is breaking,
Sleep was sweet and so is waking.
Dear Lord, I promised you last night
Never again to sulk or fight.
Such vows are easier to keep
When a child is sound asleep.
Today, O Lord, for your dear sake,
I’ll try to keep them when awake.

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Today’s Poem: God is Always Ready by Meister Eckhart

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God is Always Ready

Meister Eckhart

God is always ready,
but we are very unready;
God is near to us,
but we are far from Him;
God is within, but we are without;
God is at home, but we are strangers.

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Today’s Poem: Happiness by John Kenyon

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Happiness

John Kenyon

A face I saw, whose outward calm
  All inward peace might well express;
  And whose, I asked, that brow of balm?
  Her name, they said, was Happiness.
  And what those fillet-bands, I cried,
  The which in either hand she bears?
  Just such round Cupid’s eyes are tied,
  And such eternal Justice wears.
  “Wouldst Thou be happy,” ’twas replied,
    “O’er coming hours must one be cast;
    And one (I knew the truth, and sighed)
    Must shroud the memory of the past.”

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Today’s Poem: Love and Light by Henry Van Dyke

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Love and Light

Henry Van Dyke

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

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Today’s Poem: Doors of Daring by Henry Van Dyke

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Doors of Daring

Henry Van Dyke

The mountains that enfold the vale
    With walls of granite, steep and high,
Invite the fearless foot to scale
    Their stairway toward the sky.

The restless, deep, dividing sea
    That flows and foams from shore to shore,
Calls to its sunburned chivalry,
    “Push out, set sail, explore!”

And all the bars at which we fret,
    That seem to prison and control,
Are but the doors of daring, set
    Ajar before the soul.

Say not, “Too poor,” but freely give;
    Sigh not, “Too weak,” but boldly try,
You never can begin to live
    Until you dare to die.

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Today’s Poem: The Sea Hath Its Pearls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Sea Hath Its Pearls

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sea hath its pearls,
The heaven hath its stars;
But my heart, my heart,
My heart hath its love.

Great are the sea, and the heaven;
Yet greater is my heart,
And fairer than pearls or stars
Flashes and beams my love.

Thou little, youthful maiden,
Come unto my great heart;
My heart, and the sea and the heaven
Are melting away with love!

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Today’s Poem: A Song by Harry Breaker Morant

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A Song

Harry Breaker Morant

The sun may shine, the rain may fall,
  And the world roll round about, –
The king’s men and king’s horses all
  Can never rub one thing out.

Skies may darken – clouds will flit –
  Troubles may gather and go:
For my sweetheart loves me “just a bit!
  And, oh! I love her so.

The vapour vanishes in the sun!
  So pass cures, doubts, and pains –
For I’m “loved a bit” by the dearest one,
  And the best the world contains.

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Today’s Poem: Triangle Friendship by Harriet Annie Wilkins

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Triangle Friendship

Harriet Annie Wilkins

  I’ll take a triangle friendship please
you get to stop and pause along the path of the triangle
take a deep breath and look around at each corner
see what you have before you
enjoy the moment before you move on to the next corner

With a circle friendship
everything goes round and round much too fast to take in and enjoy
one friend may speed way ahead in a circle friendship
and leave the other behind
gives you no time to see and appreciate what you have in a friend
gives no time to put the breaks on and stop from hurting the one you love

A triangle is never ending as a circle is
but with the triangle you pause
you look around
you see who is there with you
you get to live in that moment
and you look forward to the next corner of the triangle when you both meet again

So for those of you in a circle friendship,
take a hammer out bang that circle into a triangle
and say hello to a new friendship you have begun
and enjoy the corners it has with the one you love.

Today is the start of a new day,
today is the day of the “Triangle Friendship”
one i look forward to taking the time to pause at each corner
and appreciating my friend
enjoying the calm, slow, steady path of
corner to corner to corner
with each other

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Today’s Poem: I Am Gentle With You by Halina Poswiatowska

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I Am Gentle With You

Halina Poswiatowska

I am gentle with you
as with bees
the sharp smell of flowers
I am kind to you
as to the bird’s tired wings
a swinging branch
as gold
I fall on your lids
with a smile
I chase away thoughts – stinging wasps
this night
has given you to me
the vast night
with my hair strewn in disorder over canvass
you are
clear like the moon
you shine
in my cold sky
I pray to you
what religion is this
where they worship the lips
of the curved god of dawns
ah religion
magnificent blasphemers
we are to one another
a closed four-cornered world

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