Tag: Exalted Felicitations of the Day!

A Poem for Labor Day

Brass Spittoons By Langston Hughes Clean the spittoons, boy.      Detroit,      Chicago,      Atlantic City,      Palm Beach.Clean the spittoons.The steam in hotel kitchens,And the smoke in hotel lobbies,And the slime in hotel spittoons:Part of my life.      Hey, boy!      A

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Since It’s My Birthday…

I am giving myself up to lazy jollification… And letting G.K. Chesterton do the writing today: Our Birthday From G. K.s Weekly, 21st March, 1935.This was written on the occasion

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Pentecost

Today we feel the wind beneath our wingsToday  the hidden fountain flows and playsToday the church draws breath at last and singsAs every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.This is

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Ascension

We saw his light break through the cloud of gloryWhilst we were rooted still in time and placeAs earth became a part of Heaven’s storyAnd heaven opened to his human

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The Key to My Heart

For Janet How can it be that I feel youngernow, with you, than I did in grey youth? Grimlypacing the cage of my lonely hungerfor love, I tested the bars

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