mauidux1963: "Thank you".... to all who voted for my little poem " A little stitched ball." for the BEING A BASEBALL FAN contest. Greatly appreciated!!
    DIS-illusioned: I didn't vote for it--didn't vote at all--but still accept your thanks. -


mauidux1963: I think "INVICTUS" may be my favorite poem of all time.
    michaelcahill: It's up there on my list too. Awesome words.


    Invictus
    BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
    Out of the night that covers me,
    Black as the pit from pole to pole,
    I thank whatever gods may be
    For my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloody, but unbowed.

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    Looms but the Horror of the shade,
    And yet the menace of the years
    Finds and shall find me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul. -
    seaglass: Me too, I adore this poem.
    -


mauidux1963: write before the day is lost....