Best Hesperus Poems

( In honor of my historical neighbor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose family's summer home is about a mile from where I live )


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HESPERUS' NIGHTMARE

  "For thirty-three years I have served in the Legislature.  Every now and then, you simply give the citizens what they want."  -  Representative Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, Mississippi State Legislature **

Could this really be
in all honesty
what this ass's neigh ...

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A red cloak covers the sky
a beautiful and somber numbing color...
Is the dark reddish solitude of the afternoon...
Offers us a show at the same time
of fear and ecstasy of wonder... !
The fiery day asks to be dark
to calm its igneous strength.
such natural beauty
in a powerful...

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