Very First Blog Ever

This is the beginning of my Midterm Project for ENGL 223.  So far this class has been the most fun I have had since coming back to school.  The teacher is awesome and my classmates are suppah-cool :)


I know I am supposed to keep my blog posts to the subject, so this may be my only opportunity to share my two most favorite poems :)

Ultimate Haiku

The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then

- Author unknown

The other is by Edgar Allan Poe:

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

 

And with that shared, I have come to the end of my very first blog post ever :)