Read the original (in translation) here.
Happy 200th birthday to Walt Whitman (belated)
A belated happy birthday to Walt Whitman, who turned 200 on Friday, May 31
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Poets Answer an Age-Old Question: Why did the chicken cross the road? [Part 1]
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A:
William Shakespeare
To cross or not to cross—that is the question!
Whether ‘tis nobler in the coop to suffer
The pecks and scratches of aggressive chickens
Or set foot upon a dusty roadway
And so, with your toes spread, cross it.
Walt Whitman
O chicken, my chicken
The fearful path is wide
But still you walked across the road
To reach the other side.
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not cross the road
A chicken crossed for me
And pecked the doorbell that would ring
Apartment number three.
Thomas Hardy calls the Poetry Crisis Line
From “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy
Ezra Pound* calls the Poetry Crisis Line
*Mr. Pound’s opinions do not necessarily reflect the views of the Poetry Crisis Line. However, you can read the rest of the poem here.
Suggested by Vincent Zepp.
Daenerys Tardigrade, Mother of Dragonflies
Matsuo Basho calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Read the original and other springtime poems here.
If Shakespeare had corporate sponsors
Ralph Waldo Emerson calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Read the original here.
The Adventures of Anubis & Ammut: The Staff of Ra
