...here are a few of my favorite poems by the great poet,
Emily Dickinson...who has been a favorite of mine since i first opened
a small coffee table book and read "My Life Parted Twice"...
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
The heart asks pleasure first,
He ate and drank the precious words,
I Hide myself within my flower,
I'll tell you how the sun rose,-
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of the Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too-
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!"
But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
©Denise Angela Celeste