Book Club Members (Em, Karine, Nazli missing)

Thanks Diane for the nice food you have prepared and the pretty Christmas decorations along with the nativities, Christmas Carrols....

Happy Holidays to all! Happy Hanukah, Happy Dwavali, Ramadan! We did learn a bit about other BIG holidays.

List of Poems

List or our annual Poem reading and cookie exchange.

catherine smart (SHE WANTED TO BRING THE ONE SHE HAD PICKED WHEN SHE GOT MARRIED, THE A FAIRY ONE BUT DECIDED TO USE THIS OTHER ONE)
WE ARE MADE ONE WITH WHAT WE TOUCH AND SEE
Oscar Wilde (1854 –1900)

We are resolved into the supreme air,

We are made one with what we touch and see,

With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,

With our young lives each spring impassioned tree

Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range

The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.

With beat of systole and of diastole

One grand great life throbs through earth's giant heart,

And mighty waves of single Being roll

From nerveless germ to man, for we are part

Of every rock and bird and beast and hill,

One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill

One sacrament are consecrate, the earth

Not we alone hath passions hymeneal,

The yellow buttercups that shake for mirth

At daybreak know a pleasure not less real

Than we do, when in some fresh blossoming wood

We draw the spring into our hearts, and feel that life is good

Is the light vanished from our golden sun,

Or is this daedalfashioned earth less fair,

That we are nature's heritors, and one

With every pulse of life that beats the air?

Rather new suns across the sky shall pass,

New splendour come unto the flower, new glory to the grass.

And we two lovers shall not sit afar,

Critics of nature, but the joyous sea

Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star

Shoot arrows at our pleasure! We shall be

Part of the mighty universal whole,

And through all Aeons mix and mingle with the Kosmic Soul!.

We shall be notes in that great Symphony

Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres,

And all the live World's throbbing heart shall be

One with our heart, the stealthy creeping years

Have lost their terrors now, we shall not die,

The Universe itself shall be our Immortality!.





roseann rhoda(SHE HAD DISCOVERED THAT POEMS ARE A WHOLE NEW WORLD)
LOSS AND GAIN
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I compare

What I have lost with what I have gained,

What I have missed with what attained,

Little room do I find for pride.

I am aware

How many days have been idly spent;

How like an arrow the good intent

Has fallen short or been turned aside.

But who shall dare

To measure loss and gain in this wise?

Defeat may be victory in disguise;

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.


nancy stevenson
OPEN THE DOOR
Cindy Keil

Find what's inside
Discover the richness
That you've tried to hide

You really do matter
Take time to care
Mine your life's treasure
Your wealth to be shared

Don't hide your bright light
Let it shine thru
Step into the open
It's time for you.

Don't stay in the shadows
It's time to breathe free
It's time to proclaim it
I'm free to be me!

No music is sweeter
It just can't be wrong
Than someone who chooses
To sing her own song

No one does it better
No need to look
You are the author
of your own book.

So write it and read it
Live your sweet harmony
Claim your won truth
Say-The author is me!