Category Archives: Daily Offerings

 Elevator MusicA tune with no more substance than the air,performed on underwater instruments,is proper to this short lift from the earth.It hovers as we draw into ourselvesand turn our reverent eyes toward the lightsthat count us to our various destinies.We’re … Continue reading →

From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98) From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed … Continue reading →

  Meaning If a life needn’t be useful to be meaningful, Then maybe a life of sunbathing on a beach Can be thought of as meaningful for at least a few, The few, say, who view the sun as a … Continue reading →

With Music Dear, did we meet in some dim yesterday?    I half remember how the birds were mute    Among green leaves and tulip-tinted fruit, And on the grass, beside a stream, we lay In early twilight; faintly, far … Continue reading →

  i thank You God for most this amazing i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky: and for everything which is natural which is … Continue reading →

Meeting at Night The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And … Continue reading →

At a Dinner Party With fruit and flowers the board is decked,    The wine and laughter flow; I’ll not complain — could one expect    So dull a world to know? You look across the fruit and flowers,    … Continue reading →

Provisions What should we have taken with us? We never could decide on that; or what to wear, or at what time of year we should make the journey So here we are in thin raincoats and rubber boots On … Continue reading →