Jimmy,
a black, snub-nosed bitch, a jaw shoved out,
your eyes throwing forward a wrinkled reproachful look,
your fur so brindled as to give one to understand
you were not pure,
receded into oblivion.
Suddenly you intruded into our memory
when we were observing the third death anniversary
of our Father.
About this time three years ago
Father was admitted to the hospital
believed to be [...]

We gathered, took time off,
pondered our freedom,
on the anniversary
our Declaration of Independence
when we dissolved the political bonds
when we proclaimed, to the world,
what we hoped for, what we believed in
as a people, set apart,
that we hold these truths to be self-evident,
that we are born equal, each one,
that the creator gave us unalienable rights,
life, liberty, and the [...]

Would that I had the crystal ball
to answer her quaking question
a day or two before the anniversary
of the attacks in her brother’s home town
To assuage her sudden fears,
casual sharing of a presidential candidate’s
positions, the flier in her lap,
to discussions of terrorists,
that they wouldn’t strike here,
in our quiet city; but in
the same kinds of places;
but “that [...]

A marriage is a special
And a rare bond
That brings two people
Very close in the pond
In the pond of joy
Love, care and smile
That goes a long way
Very far away miles
And today I’m happy
And proud to tell its true
That on our 1st anniversary
I’m thinking about you
And all other nice times
And things that we have shared
that always [...]

I wish we can spend
All of our tomorrows
Together with happiness
And free of the sorrows
i hope we can get
many many years together
In which love and joy
Both of us can gather
And I pray to the God
To give us the strength today
To learn to pick the thorns
from each others way
And spread flowers of
Love, comfort and pleasure
In [...]

At the time when the stars are grey,
And the gold of the molten moon
Fades, and the twilight is thinned,
And the sun leaps up, and the wind,
A light rose, not of the day,
A stronger light than of noon.
As the light of a face much loved
Was the face of the light that clomb;
As a mother’s whitened with [...]

Let Dew, house of Dew rejoice with Xanthenes a precious stone of an amber colour.
Let Round, house of Round rejoice with Myrmecites a gern having an Emmet in it.
Let New, house of New rejoice with Nasamonites a gem of a sanguine colour with black veins.
Let Hook, house of Hook rejoice with Sarda a Cornelian — [...]

Let us have birthdays every day,
(I had the thought while I was shaving)
Because a birthday should be gay,
And full of grace and good behaving.
We can’t have cakes and candles bright,
And presents are beyond our giving,
But let lt us cherish with delight
The birthday way of lovely living.
For I have passed three-score and ten
And I can count [...]

“This bunch of violets,” he said,
“Is for my daughter dear.
Since that glad morn when she was wed
It is today a year.
She lives atop this flight of stairs–
Please give an arm to me:
If we can take her unawares
How glad she’ll be!”
We climbed the stairs; the flight was four,
Our steps were stiff and slow;
But as he reached [...]

Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
So Man, declining always, disappears
In the weak circles of increasing years;
And his short tumults of themselves compose,
While flowing Time above his head does close.
Cromwell alone with greater vigour runs,
(Sun-like) the stages of succeeding suns:
And still the day which he doth [...]