poetry

From the popular Bible passages thread. Sensitive folks may wish to stop here as my limerick may offend some. How's this, @chansen? There is an old man named God, Whose habits are terribly odd, He sleeps with young virgins, Heals without surgeons, And never spares sinners the rod. :D Anyone...

I love poetry. Classical, modern, you name it. It is one of my favorite art forms. And that art form has lost one of its finest modern practitioners. Mary Oliver has died at 83. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver dead at 83 | CBC Books I own more books by Mary Oliver than any other single...

Okay, so I recently heard (finally) Buffy Sainte-Marie's setting of this famous passage from Leonard Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers. I love this piece of Cohen dearly and have even read it in church (UU) once or twice. God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot Sarah Perkins & Ian Jackson (scroll down to see...