'Teach me I am forgotten' by the dead by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poets.org

Teach me I am forgotten by the dead And that the dead is by herself forgot And I no longer would keep terms with me.

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12:32 PM May 25, 2013

To honor our brave soldiers and their families.

Leaving the Family Behind The very roots are torn from the tree. The soldier must soldier on with heart, mind and soul 9,000 miles away. The very roots are torn from the tree. While families left behind live a daily palpable drama hoping to avoid the tragedy of the reaper rapping the death knell knock....

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Blogs 9:45 PM May 24, 2013 Poems of Life, a Community Blog

Spring Song by Sherwood Anderson | Poets.org

In the forest, amid old trees and wet dead leaves, a shrine. Men on the wet leaves kneeling.

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10:16 AM May 19, 2013 Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier-Herald

Song by James Joyce | Poets.org

My love is in a light attire Among the apple trees,

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10:11 AM May 19, 2013 Enumclaw Courier-Herald

To My Mother, by Christina Rossetti | Poets.org

Christina Rossetti's best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. She died in 1894.

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11:05 AM May 12, 2013 Enumclaw Courier-Herald

Seattle Symphony musicians free chamber music May 15

WHAT: The public and media are invited to a free lunchtime chamber music performance in Benaroya Hall’s Samuel & Althea Stroum Grand Lobby at 12:45 p.m Wednesday, May 15.

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8:06 PM May 11, 2013 Enumclaw Courier-Herald

Before the Birth of One of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet | Poets.org

Anne Bradstreet was born in Northamptonshire, England in 1612, but emigrated to Ipswich, Massachusetts at the age of 18 with her husband and parents.

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10:24 AM May 11, 2013 Enumclaw Courier-Herald

The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage by Wallace Stevens | Poets.org

But not on a shell, she starts, Archaic, for the sea. But on the first-found weed

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9:20 AM May 5, 2013

My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree by Vachel Lindsay | Poets.org

Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, Illinois on November 10, 1879. He was known as the Prairie Troubadour because he integrated music into his poems and performed them theatrically. He died in 1931.

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10:38 AM April 28, 2013 Enumclaw Courier-Herald

Cloud Shadows

I saw cloud shadows Atop rolling hills Dusty green and hazy In the mid-day sun Cruising straight ahead On a never ending road I sit and see Life passing by me Cloud after cloud Shadow after shadow A feeling of uneasiness Rises and fades away The mind misses the train White cloud misses the rain...

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Blogs 8:40 PM April 21, 2013 Poems of Life, a Community Blog

We never know how high we are (1176) by Emily Dickinson | Poets.org

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise;

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11:17 AM April 20, 2013 Enumclaw Courier-Herald

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