But sometimes you want to express the rage and sorrow that come ... Pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that ...
This posthumously published poem takes readers on an emotional journey, from the joyous pealing of wedding bells to the somber toll of funeral chimes, and brilliantly explains what each of these ...
This song, or at least part of it, dates from Burns' time at Ellisland and is one of the most famous pieces in the collection of bawdry songs and poems which make up the Merry Muses of Caledonia.
Others interpret it as a poem about an allegory about an ideal marriage, where two souls come together and become ... Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds.” ...
This resonates with me. When I read great poetry like Dickinson ... Indeed, I think that when we dare to embrace poetry’s capacity to make nothing happen, we might come to a richer conception of those ...
Tom Parker's widow Kelsey has reached out to Cheryl as the singer shared a heartbreaking message about Bear losing his dad in ...
Orpheus and Eurydice, that famous live-dead couple, also get poems in After Image. There are many intense bursts of emotion ...
Most, if not all, of the time, death and passing come as a surprise, with family members left behind having to carry the burden of shouldering funeral expenses, which often come at a costly price ...
‘Am I going to come ... me what to eat. I’ll decide what I want.’ You listen to your customer; that’s how you stay in business 90 years.” Allen has also made it a point since taking over to provide ...
Before the war in Gaza, the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis was a regularly functioning hospital. Patients would come ...
He told me this on a warm March day in a courtyard in central Kigali, almost exactly 30 years later. I had come to Rwanda because ... Longolongo attended a funeral for a Tutsi man.