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The River

The river I have under my tongue,
Unimaginable water, my little boat,
And curtains lowered, let's speak.




Quotes of the Day

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
• Jiddu Krishnamurti


Poems of the Day
  • Henry David Thoreau
    The Soul's Season
    by Henry David Thoreau
    Thank God who seasons thus the year, And sometimes kindly slants his rays, For in his winter he's most near, And plainest seen upon the shortest days.