Category Archives: Poems

When I have fears that I may cease to be     Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,  Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,     Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;  When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,     Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,  And think that I may never live to trace Continue reading “When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be”

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway! If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway! If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway! The good you do today, will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway! Honesty and frankness make youContinue reading “Anyway”

^^^ Driving home along the old wool road Not long now to our humble abode The groceries from Bilo on the back seat Beside the restless hungry dogs who are wet from the beach A synchronised sigh as we peer up ahead Clouds apricot gold sharply outlined in red Bold columns of light explode throughContinue reading “Shared Sunset”

The integrity of Aboriginal women Always carries  The pride of her nation Through thick and thin She may always be called  A gin Not even that  Will make her sin She does not come  From a throw away society In Australia My mother always will have… A.B.oriGINality Individual freedom and spiritual belonging. Written By MichaelContinue reading “Heart and Soul”

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I lost my talk The talk you took away. When I was a little girl At Shubenacadie school. You snatched it away: I speak like you I think like you I create like you The scrambled ballad, about my word. Two ways I talk Both ways I say, Your way is more powerful. So gentlyContinue reading “I Lost My Talk”

I want you to know one thing.  * You know how this is:  if I look  at the crystal moon, at the red branch  of the slow autumn at my window,  if I touch  near the fire  the impalpable ash  or the wrinkled body of the log,  everything carries me to you,  as if everythingContinue reading “If You Forget Me”

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing knownContinue reading “Preface to Leaves of Grass”

Her smile is lost and laughter fades, her soul is growing weak, Violence is not something that in our hearts we seek. Silenced were the words our people could not speak. Let us rise against our demons, let go the pain and sorrow The past is not our future – Our future is tomorrow. +++Continue reading “Rise of the Crow”

You have no enemies, you say?     Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray     Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have none, Small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip, You’ve dashedContinue reading “You Have No Enemies”