a poem a day keeps death away

Now that it's fall and the cherry trees are almost about to be bare, I can't help thinking about this beautiful line again and again.

Lately, my life has been feeling like fall: beautiful yet sad with a lingering feeling that winter's not far. But then I met someone who did what spring does with the cherry trees.

Isn't it beautiful how love can change everything? Even in times of hopelessness, it gives you the flower of hope that changes everything.

"Would it have been worth while,

To have bitten off the matter with a smile,

To have squeezed the universe the universe into a ball

To roll it towards some overwhelming question,

To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,

Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all..."

By Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:

Petals on a wet black bough.

Howl by Allen Ginsberg

The world is becoming very authoritarian. Democracy is becoming nothing but a joke. We need a revolution. We need Allen Ginsberg. We need Howl.

A timeless classic by Emily Dickinson.

Hope is the only thing that keeps us going through these difficult times. Let's hope that the world stands with humanity. Let's hope that no one is deprived of human rights; even if we may never see this happen, let's not be hopeless, for being hopeless is worse than death.

From Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden.