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“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska: An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead: A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
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Tag Archives: Famous Poems
”Waking or asleep, / Thou of death must deem / Things more true and deep / Than we mortals dream, / Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?”
–Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "To a Skylark"
Read the full poem here. More from A Right of Passage: Memorial Songs: “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” Memorial … Continue reading
“Sorrow’s Uses” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Learning different lessons from the poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Last December, I wrote about the necessity of grief when discussing “Sorrow’s Uses,” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Today, I’m looking at a poem called “A Song of Life,” by the same author, but which has a very different tone (though … Continue reading
