If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal [...]
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Food by Suman Mahmood Could someone put some food on my plate? Make me something; it doesn’t have to be great Something form mothers hands It doesn’t have to be anything grand With a pinch of giving And a dash of caring Add some spices for flavor It’ll be something I savor Set up the [...]
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Winged Energy of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood’s dark abysses, now beyond your own life build the great arch of unimagined bridges. Wonders happen if we can succeed in passing through the harshest danger; but only in a bright and purely granted achievement can [...]
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It is my 100th post for Urban Sacred Garden since the first post on February 24, 2011. Time to open a bottle of Champagne, Asti Spumante or Cava, make a toast and celebrate! I’m very happy about the progress I’ve made and look forward to many future posts and adventures to come. In honor of [...]
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In honor of the holiday weekend I am posting one of the most memorable inaugural poems I have heard in my lifetime. It is a long read, but Maya Angelou’s words are golden wisdom, filled with hope for our nation. On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou spoken at the President Clinton’s Inauguration Ceremony [...]
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Always a classic… Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; [...]
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My father has blessed me with… A true and absolute love of gardening and nature. A walk in the woods with my Dad is always something special. He knows the woods, the land, the flora and fauna, and animals so well that every walk is a learning experience. He knows the vines of various wild [...]
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The Grass by Emily Dickinson The grass so little has to do – A sphere of simple green, With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain, And stir all day to pretty tunes The breezes fetch along, And hold the sunshine in its lap And bow to everything; And thread the dews all night, [...]
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In honor of Memorial Day, I am sharing a piece of patriotic writing from a unique and powerful American voice, Langston Hughes. Below are the last three stanzas of the poem, you can find the entirety of the poem here. Freedom’s Plow by Langston Hughes, 1943 America is a dream. The poet says it was [...]
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Long at Sea by em claire I left my home so long ago now that I would not recognize my own face. I constructed the Boat of My Life and I set out into the open sea, waving to all who knew that the seas would give me everything I could handle and everything I [...]
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