News from Herb Ely: We just got back from the Kiwanis International Convention in Montreal, Canada. The United Nations representative called our service project the greatest public health project ever.....

Random Poetry List LIV The rain Drips down O'er fields All green With grain. Earth's gown Is seen Clinging To her In folds Bedraggled. The grey Sky yields Great drops....

Sonnets: America. i Men say, Columbia, we shall hear thy guns. But in what tongue shall be thy battle-cry? Not that our sires did love in years gone by, When....

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Random Poetry List LIII Consider the season's wheel: the turn of summer creeping over leaves one incurved tendril on the vine, one pointed peak of sweet, late clover. Initiate the....

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Independence Day 2006 To the Statue on the Capitol Looking Eastward at Dawn What sunken splendor in the Eastern skies    Seest thou, O Watcher, from thy lifted place?— Thine old....