Today's Word

verdure(ver·dure)
noun
lush green vegetation.
the fresh green color of vegetation.
literary a condition of freshness.

Words of Wisdom

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

~Elbert Hubbard

Today's Word

KNELL

1. tolling of a bell esp. one announcing a death.

2. any sad or doleful sound.

Today's Word

AFFECTATION


a : the act of taking on or displaying an attitude or mode of behavior not natural to oneself or not genuinely felt b : speech or conduct not natural to oneself : artificiality.

2. obsolete : a striving after

TODAY'S WORD

QUAFF

to drink deeply

Today's Word

MIEN

n. mannner; expression

Words Of Wisdom

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.


~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Today's Word

PAEAN

n. a song of joy or exultation; hymn

Lower East Side

Wednesday, August 24th @ 7PM –
FreeReading: CALYX poets Elana Bell, Claudia Cortese & Janlori

GoldmanCALYX, journal of fine literature and art by women, invites you to an

evening of poetry by New York writers featured in their summer issue. Join

Elana Bell, Claudia Cortese, and Janlori Goldman for wordsmithing across the

poetic spectrum, and pick up an issue of the new CALYX to enjoy in these late

summer days.

Bluestockings
172 Allen Street
New York, NY

POEM

I never traveled this road before
Lined with thick brush and boulders,
It looks strange and foreboding
There's nothing to guide me

Each step forward is a step closer
To an unknown destination,
What awaits me, I know not.
But I trek on.

I'm nudged forward
By an unseen hand
I turn around and
All the footprints of my life are gone.

Overhead the sky hawk cries
Follow me, follow me!

MORE WORDS

1. there; their

2. pear, pair, pare

3. wine; whine

4. ware; wear; where

Same Sound; Spelled Differently

1. mussel; muscle

2. stationary; stationery

3. sweet; suite

Words of Wisdom

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.


Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher (1632-1677)

Today's Word

ETHEREAL

1. celestial; heavenly.

2. exceptionally delicate: airy, dainty

Today's Word

PORTENT

1. Something that fore shadows a coming event: omen

2. marvel; prodigy

Words of Wisdom

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

~Ausonius, Roman Poet (310-395AD)

Last night I read three poems at a open mic event at a bookstore. My wife read four poems. It was the first time that I read my poems to a audience. I look forward to doing it again.

~Genevieve

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

~Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher, (544BC-483BC)

Poem

Life’s Many Roads

I have traveled along many roads.
Some were smooth and straight;
Others were crooked and rocky.
Some roads were winding and wooded;
Still others were barren and empty.
Each road brought me somewhere.