The American Minervan

Tag: poetry

  • Weeping Shades of Hades

    Weeping Shades of Hades

    ˗ˏˋ ✸ ˎˊ˗ A WISDOM, that leads to the BELOVED — all mystics search for; That which confers goodness, and is the hope of our highest aspirations, out of the Groves of the living DEAD of the Nether, And the Woods and WEEPING “Shades” of Hades.

  • Shall I too Fall Asleep?

    Shall I too Fall Asleep?

    Some people tell me I am dramatic. In moments that mean more than they could comprehend! Bewildered by the dreary sleep those are caught in who tell me this, and who could not catch a star if it was bite sized and floated before them before going out. Similarly, they do not seem to grab…

  • The Tempests: Someday | America

    The Tempests: Someday | America

    Let the music speak . . . “Someday, maybe baby somewhere / somehow, O sometime, I’m going to find you / and make you mine, mine O mine / Someday. Someday.” . . . And then the beautiful black youth of today stood up, but so did the many. And they saw hope and light…

  • Gerald Massey: “There’s No Dearth in Kindness”

    There’s no dearth of kindness In this world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers; Outward we are spurning, Trampling one another; While we are inly yearning With the name of “brother!” —Gerald Massey, excerpt from There’s No Dearth of Kindness.