“Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts,
Don’t you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.”
~ Bob Marley
Poems
Maya Angelou Poem
My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that’s walked,
A song that’s spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost choke,
When I think about myself.
~Maya Angelou
Daniel James Burt, Poem
Moon hangs, almost full
pieces of cloud scatter,
glide in soft, summer breeze.
We lay in our meadow
listening to the sound of night….
~Daniel James Burt, “Meadow Again”
Leonard Cohen Poem
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen
November woods are bare and still – A Poem by Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson
November woods are bare and still;
November days are clear and bright;
Each noon burns up the morning’s chill;
The morning’s snow is gone by night…
November woods are bare and still;
November days are bright and good;
Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill;
Life’s night rests feet which long have stood…
~Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson (1830–1885), “Down to Sleep.”
Sara Teasdale, November
The world is tired, the year is old,
The faded leaves are glad to die…
~Sara Teasdale, “November”
John Ruskin, The Months
October’s foliage yellows with his cold:
In rattling showers dark November’s rain,
From every stormy cloud, descends amain,
Till keen December’s snows close up the year again.
~John Ruskin, “The Months,” c.1834
