Image: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Getty Images Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 6 “Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand” Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet 6 is a clever seduction sonnet; as the speaker seems to be giving the suitor every reason to leave her, she is also giving him very good reasons to remain. Introduction and Text of Sonnet 6 "Go from me.

Image:  “Celestial Singer of Light” created by ChatGPT inspired by “O Belovèd, My Divine Belovèd” O Belovèd, My Divine Belovèd But no . . . How can I speak to my Divine BelovèdWith this filthy tongue in this filthy mouth? How can I speak to my Divine BelovèdIn the dirty chambers of this dirty heart? How can I speak to my Divine Belovèd…

Image: Created by Grok inspired by “Abandoned Garden” Abandoned Garden Thou didst plough me; Thou didst plant Thy seed,But Thou didst not remain to tend my growing— Now, Thou send’st su…

Image: Created by Grok inspired by "Abandoned Garden" Thou didst plough me; Thou didst plant Thy seed,But Thou didst not remain to tend my growing— Now, Thou send’st sun to feed & rain to suckle me.Thou send’st fingerling thoughts to prod me & pluck my weeds—But without Thee, I grow only faint-hearted fruit.

Image: WH Auden in the Tom Quadrangle at Christ Church College, Oxford © Camera Pres  W. H. Auden’s “Doggerel by a Senior Citizen” The speaker in Auden’s “Doggerel by a…

Image: .38 Special “Second Chance” Official Music Video .38 Special’s “Second Chance”: A Yogic Interpretation The song “Second Chance” expresses the very human regret that occurs after a rela…

Image:  Gary Clark  – Daily Record Gary Clark’s “Mary’s Prayer”: A Yogic Interpretation Employing the Christian iconic mother figure, the song “Mary’s …

Image:  Cornelius Eady  Cornelius Eady’s “Renée Nicole Good Is Murdered” Poetaster Cornelius Eady’s “Renée  Nicole Good Is Murdered” attempts an elegy motivated by political propagan…

Image: Created by Grok Renée Nicole Macklin’s “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” The eight movements in this piece of postmodern doggerel serve to indict the scribbling as nothing more than a post…

Image: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Getty Images Sonnet 3 "Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!” The speaker in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet 3 muses on how unlikely it seems that a plain individual such as herself would begin a relationship with a person who has attracted royalty. Introduction and Text of Sonnet 3 "Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!"

Image: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - NPG, London Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 5 from Sonnets from the Portuguese focuses on the speaker's lack of confidence that her budding relationship will continue to grow. Introduction with Text of Sonnet 5 "I lift my heavy heart up solemnly" The speaker's lack of confidence in her own value as a person and poet makes her doubt that budding relationship will continue to blossom.

Image: Emily Dickinson - Amherst College - Daguerrotype of the poet at age 17, circa 1847 - likely the only authentic, extant likeness of the poet The speaker in Emily Dickinson’s "I had a guinea golden" is expressing melancholy at the loss of a friend, whom she describes metaphorically in terms of three dear objects: a guinea, a robin, and a star.

A Few Curiosities Regarding Edward de Vereand the Writer Who Called Himself Shake-speare by Mark Alexander and Prof. Daniel Wright Unlike William of Stratford—born to illiterate parents in a virtually bookless market town in provincial Warwickshire—Edward de Vere was born to a mother of prominent literary associations (Margaret Golding) and a father who kept an acting company (the Earl of Oxford's Men) that his son inherited; Edward de Vere's father also was one of the early nobleman patrons of the theatre and a patron to John Bale, one of the early writers of the history play, the genre with which the writer known as Shakespeare is widely regarded to have begun his own playwriting career.

by Professor Daniel Wright, Ph.D. Director, The Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre In the early 1780s, the Reverend Dr James Wilmot, a friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson and rector of a small parish church near Stratford-Upon-Avon, went searching for the legacy of England's greatest literary prodigy, an artist of unrivaled achievement whose poetry and drama were renowned but about whose person very little was known.

Image: Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford Who Was Edward de Vere? by Professor Daniel Wright, Ph.D.Director, The Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre Although the date and circumstances of his birth are in some dispute amongst scholars, the official historical record tells us that in April of 1550, Edward de Vere, Viscount Bolebec and heir to the ancient earldom of Oxford, was born at his family's ancestral home of Castle Hedingham in the county of Essex.

The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy: The Case Summarily Stated by Professor Daniel L. WrightDirector, The Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre Who wrote the works of Shakespeare? Tradition reports that the author was a tradesman from provincial Warwickshire who was baptized Gulielmus Shakspere, a man who, to the best of our knowledge, never had a day's schooling, and yet we are told - and are expected to believe - that, in his twenties, this man began to publish (having written nothing before in the whole of his life!) the most erudite works of literature the world has ever seen.

Image: Thomas Thornburg, Back Book Cover American Ballads American Ballads Published by Author House, Bloomington IN, 2009 Bag Ladies Bag ladies are this season wearingfield-jackets gleaned from K-MART shoppers andKEDS cast off by charioteerson skateboards fleeing from the cops;hooded and rope-cinched at their waists(doomed matched pairs shuffling westward).vespers et matins in their quest…

Published by Two Magpies Press, Bozeman MT, 2001 TAVERNA NOCTURNA (for Carol Kasparek) the sick cat in the clowder calls,(the little girl who loved her lost)wanders in the alley, fallsand stiffens like a frozen coat;a powder of November pallson the despair of hunted dusks,a dumb husk of hares;that creature in the corner there…

ANCIENT LETTERS Published by Barnwood Press, Daleville IN, 1987. Ancient Letters One wonders whom the next electedCriminal for these troubled timesWill the feckless public, suspect,Lever in the long direction(Between the last war and the next)We take in our quotidian crimes;How long our matrons skirt the leeringLawless on main ways to market;How long our aged folk in fear…

SATURDAY TOWN & other poems Dragon’s Teeth Press, 1976. The following poems are from Thomas Thornburg’s first published collection, Saturday Town & other poems, published in 1976 by Dragon’s Teeth Press. INTRODUCTION You, man or woman who hand this bookAlive in this red world, lookingTo your own in your human heartThe charged color of my high art,

Image: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Getty Images Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 4 "Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor” Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet 4 from Sonnets from the Portuguese continues with the speaker musing on her new relationship with her suitor, who seems too good to be true. Introduction with Text of Sonnet 4 "Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor"

Image: Ron running in the Nashville Country Music Marathon I have been running for over 40 years. I started running when I was 24. It wasn't until I was 54 that I completed my first marathon. I always enjoyed reading books about running. I had run four half-marathons, but I never thought about running a full marathon. Until a comment from a stranger changed my thinking and my life.

The barn my grandfather built A Nightmare Comes True This is my experience of a recurring nightmare that came true. In 1970 I was 16 years old. We lived in a small town in Southeastern Indiana, in a little neighborhood just across the river from town. Our house was on the main road, and we had horses in a barn and pen area on the other side of the neighborhood.

Ron W. G.'s Portrait of Linda (SRF Convocation, August 2012) 🕉 For more information about the artist, Ron W. G., (Ron Grimes),please visit: Ron in Tennessee, Facebook

Ron W. G.'s Kentucky Dawn 🕉 For more information about the artist, Ron W. G., (Ron Grimes),please visit: Ron in Tennessee, Facebook