In my yard on Forbes St. in Jacksonville, I have a Poetry Stand…that is, a stand that gives away poetry for free! All you have to do is walk by and look at it and it’s just like sharing a book.
In these times, when we are all encouraged to stay so distant from each other, we have probably never had more need of this gentle sharing. And I have decided to share it beyond my yard through this blog.
Of course, sharing poetry is much more complicated now because of the restrictions of copyright laws (although I’m sure most poets would much rather have more people read their poems) , so I can only quote a certain number of words here and hope that all the rest are out of copyright. And this isn’t a commercial site, so it shouldn’t be a problem. But I’m any case I can give you the name of the poem, a few factoids about the author, and then you can take it from there.
So I finish with a few words from Robinson Jeffers in his poem, To The Stone Cutters, where he reflects that carved stones have stood for millenia and
“..pained thoughts have found
the honey of peace in old poems.“
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