Classic poem of the day
A BALLAD OF THE OLD NORTHWEST
A midnight cry appalls the gloom,
The puncheon door is shaken:
" Awake! arouse! and flee the doom!
Man, woman, child, awaken!
" Your sky shall glow with fiery beams
Before the morn breaks ruddy!
The scalpknife in the moonlight gleams,
Athirst for vengeance bloody! "
Alaru......
Member poem of the day
Whispers from a golden sycamore,
it willingly dispenses green leaf secrets to us souls in autumn phase.
Branches creak but somehow never break despite the brittle onslaughts from an ever changing volatile environment.
Sagacious watchdogs for all seasons whose edges blur with every global warming or zero arctic plummet.
Spring, summer, autumn, winter, surreal reckless slideshows... sideshows upon a wider world that’s scrambling to catchup.
Yet these s...
