Lazy Sunday

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I got this wonderful book at the on-post library book sale on Friday. It is a collection of First Lady Jackie Kennedy's favorite poems. 

There are some gorgeous poems and I wanted to post some of my favorites. I haven't done a Sunday Art post in a while, but felt inspired reading this book last night. 

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Fog 

By Carl Sandburg 

The fog comes

on little cat feet. 

It sits looking

over harbor and city 

on silent haunches 

and then moves on. 

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Fireflies In The Garden 

By Robert Frost

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, 

And here on earth come emulating flies, 

That though they never equal stars in size,

(And they were never really stars at heart) 

Achieve at times a very star-like start . 

Only, of course, they can't sustain the part. 

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Hope Is The Thing With Feathers 

By Emily Dickinson 

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul, 

And sings the tune without the words, 

And never stops at all, 

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm 

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm. 

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea; 

Yet, never in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me 

I think this is just the loveliest book. It would make a wonderful Mother's Day gift too. The poems were compiled by Jackie Kennedy's daughter Caroline and include memories and stories about her parents. I am only part way through and can already tell this will be a book I will  return to over and over throughout the years.