A pilgrim had traveled all over the world searching for an enlightened sage who could tell him the meaning of life. Time after time he had been disappointed. Some of the sages were charlatans who wanted money, some had refused to talk to him because he was a foreigner, and some had given up talking
The Right Way, The Wrong Way, and The Army Way Sergeant Johnston got word from the commanding officer of his training platoon that one of his troops, Private Riley, had lost his mother in a car accident. “Break it to him gently, Sergeant,” the CO said. Sergeant Johnston ordered the platoon to assemble outside their
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I am sitting here. There is a tree. It has No expectations.
Late August Fire in the evening. Above the dying hemlocks, Sun sets in splendor.
Sitting Quietly What the hemlocks know They tell the wind, and the wind May tell you. Be still.
The Bloody Sire It is not bad. Let them play. Let the guns bark and the bombing-plane Speak his prodigious blasphemies. It is not bad, it is high time, Stark violence is still the sire of all the world’s values. What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope? What
My young love said to me, “My mother won’t mind, And my father won’t spite you For your lack of kind.” Then she stepped away from me, And this she did say: “It will not be long, love, Till our wedding day.” She stepped away from me And she moved through the fair, And fondly