The usual things are going on in many places.
War, hate, and killing of enemies
in order to love, protect, and nurture ones own.
Inflicting punishment on others
yet remaining free of consequences
is not possible for us
as human beings or nations;
for the revenge that brings joy
also brings grief.
This is the nature of our suffering,
that we believe our sorrows are [...]

Here is to all those poets
who made sure
with all their might
that their poems rhymed
notwithstanding history
which judged them trite
or our English professors
who showered the poets
having no sense of meter
with undue praise
we can make a case
that a great wrong has been done.
Oh but how Robert how
frosty this winter is
and I see lovely woods so deep
but now Robert [...]

On July 3, 2006, I was in Franconia, New Hampshire. Someone mentioned that the famous American poet Robert Frost loved the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Frost, in fact, lived in Franconia from 1915 to 1920 and spent nineteen summers there as well with his family.

I discovered that the Robert Frost Museum was only three [...]