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By Langston Hughes I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn.

By Nancy Powell The wind blows its eternal questions Scattering down the path Of this dear river Streaming across my feet As crows caw endlessly

Poetry

By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,— The venturous bark that flings On the

By Laura K. Deal Rarely, yearly, by some magic she would open the oven beyond its usual limit laying the door down flat against

By Andrea Gibson Thanks to Maia Raeder for introducing me to Andrea Gibson’s work.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred

By John Ciardi Arvin Marvin Lillisbee Fitch Rode a broomstick like a witch. Out the window, over the trees, Above the hills, across two seas,

By Carl Sandburg There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for

By Helen Lowrie Marshall A few brave ones down through the years Have dared to dream past others’ fears; Have dared to bridge the span

By Judith Hamilton events spun a fast cocoon about her hamstrung she hobbled through dark days scaling down to still: the zero hour before