The Complete Poems

of Emily Dickinson
edited by Thomas H. Johnson (PS 1541 .A1 1960 c.1)

#563 (pg 274)

I could not prove the Years had feet -
Yet confident they run
Am I, from symptoms that are past
And series that are done -

I find my feet have further Goals -
I smile upon the Aims
That felt so ample - Yesterday -
Today's - have vaster claims -

I do not dount the self I was
Was competent to me -
But something awkward in the fit -
Proves that - outgrown - I see

Selected Poems

by Rita Dove, 1993 Poet Laureate of the United States (PS 3554 O884 A6 1993B)

Geometry (pg 17)

I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh.

As the walls clear themselves of everything
but transparency, the scent of carnations
leaves with them. I am out in the open

and above the windows have hinged into butterflies,
sunlight glinting where they've intersected.
They are going to some point true and unproven.

The Old Dog Barks Backwards

by Ogden Nash (PS 3527 .A637 O4 1972)

The Bird Lover (pg 16)

Keep your cat inside your house,
And I'll stroke his fur and give him a mouse,
But let him loose on my feeding birds
And I'll beat out of him whey and curds.
If into an ornithophile you probe
You'll rouse the sleeping aelurophobe.


If you need to use the dictionary to look up ornithophile or aelurophobe- try GALILEO.
Select Databases A-Z
......Jump to E to find the Encyclopedia Britannica
......or Jump to O to find the Oxford English Dictionary.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

From Totems to Hip-Hop

:a Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002
edited by Ishmael Reed (PS 613 .F76 2003)

#8 from The Past

8

long ago black bears
sang around our lodge fires
tonight they dance
alive through our dreams

by William Oandasan, pg 43

SMILE!

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