This week’s poem of the week is the Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

You would not think that pictures of relatively modern military bunkers would look so beautiful. But they do. The landscape really helps.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats.

Voltaries Poem on the Lisbon Disaster goes with this week’s essay.

All These Things That I’ve Done was a widely popular song when it was released in 2005. Many people still find it to be deeply meaningful. The writer of this blog would an example of the type of people who love it.

What does this say about the people who like the song?

Lots of You Tube videos of the song, but we are not posting any of them because we could not find one that we could stand.

Orson Scott Card takes J.K. Rowling to the woodshed. What’s not to like?

Poem of the week is Rich Mullins song “We Are Not As Strong As We Think We Are.”

Many factors combine to make this an eery video. Hopkins’ body language seems remote and forced, as of an animated wax figure. I think this is partly a change in mannerism over the years. But the poor synching, the black and white, and the beat also contribute.

And I think it will shortly seem more appropriate than it does even now.

“Oh, my friend, we’re older but no wiser.”

The furor over Obama’s recent comments on people is small towns clinging to guns and God due to economic problems caused us to think of the country music song below.