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Classic poem of the day

I was the midmost of my world
When first I frisked me free,
For though within its circuit gleamed
But a small company,
And I was immature, they seemed
To bend their looks on me.

She was the midmost of my world
When I went further forth,
And hence it was that, whether I turned
To south, east, west, or north,
Beams of an all-day Polestar burned
From that new axe of earth.

Where now is midmost in my world?
I trace i......

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Member poem of the day

Dewdrops  dribble  at  a  point, 
where  morning  quietly  crawls,
The  shrieking  raven  shakes leaves,
leaves  whilst  making  chilling  calls,
Squirrels  flit  from  tree  to  branch,
when  I  can  barely  yawn,
All  at  once  a  looping  halo,
  splits  a  creeping  dawn,
Sounds  of...

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