Weekly Contest
Classic poem of the day
We make the world in which we live
By what we gather and what we give,
By our daily deeds and the things we say,
By what we keep or we cast away.
We make our world by the beauty we see
In a skylark's song or a lilac tree,
In a butterfly's wing, in the pale moon's rise,
And the wonder that lingers in midnight skies.
We make our world by the life we lead,
By the friends we have, by the books we read,
By the pity we show in the hour of care,
By the loads we lift and the love we share.
We make our world by the goals we pursue,
By the heights we seek and the higher view,
By hopes and dreams that reach the sun
And a will to fight till the heights are won.
What is the place in which we dwell,
A hut or a palace, a heaven or hell
We gather and scatter, we take and we give,
We make our world — and there we live.
We make the world in which we l...
member poem of the day
Have you met an angel before? Well, I have She's not the regular kind Quite unusual from the ones you know She has no wings Nor flaming sword Neither does she wear a halo Nor a dazzling white garment I know an angel One very unique of her kind Her skin glows caramel with melanin Her hair so woolly and beautifully coarse It defies gravity And her face adorned with weighty marks of aging I know an angel Sent from above Like a sunflower, She stands tall even in the darkest times And finds hope in hopelessness She radiates like a thousand rays of sunshine Her eyes burns with true love Her smile so soothing In her arms, I drown helplessly in the waters of peace So heavenly yet, so earthly I know an angel And when her time is up here, I'm rest assured that heavens finally found her They'll take her home and sing hallelujah I have an angel I call her Mum.
