[New-Poetry] Heydays

[Anny Ballardini]

Friends,

I just got an email from someone I knew way back in another lifetime, Bob O'Neil, who has just retired from Fresno State.   He's put together what appears to be a very useful online anthology, for use with students of all ages:  http://www.heydays.ws.  It features poems -- many by well-known and highly regarded poets -- about childhood experiences. 

Please enjoy -- and please pass the word. 
Ingrid Wendt


A YOUTH IN APPAREL THAT GLITTERED

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Stephen Crane
A youth in apparel that glitteredWent to walk in a grim forest.
      There he met an assassin
      Attired all in garb of old days;
      He, scowling through the thickets,
      And dagger poised quivering,
      Rushed upon the youth.
      "Sir," said the latter,
      "I am enchanted, believe me,
      To die, thus,
      In this medieval fashion,
      According to the best legends;
      Ah, what joy!"
      Then took he the wound, smiling,
      And died, content.

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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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