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Feeling Lazy

by Yang Wan-Li

Yang Wanli

My sleepy eyes fog over…long lazy day.
I put down my book of poetry
and take a walk around the house.
The cats are playing happily in the courtyard;
when they see me coming they scatter
like frightened deer.




Quotes of the Day

Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
• Robert Burns


Poems of the Day
  • A. E. Stallings
    Daylilies
    by A. E. Stallings
    I remember them, a lifetime back, Fanta orange, the way they grew Feral by the railroad track, Abundance in abandon, swarms On the embankment, gravelled, steep. I’d pick some for a vase, or two, Back ...