And so I start a blog because poems are too big to fit in a Facebook feed.

Come, Rest In This Bosom

By Thomas Moore

Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer,
Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here:
Here still is the smile that no cloud can o'ercast,
And the heart and the hand all thy own to the last.

Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same
Through joy and through torments, through glory and shame!
I knew not, I ask not if guilt's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art!

Thou hast call'd me thy angel, in moments of bliss, --
Sill thy Angel I'll be, 'mid the horrors of this, --
Through the furnace, unshrinking, thy steps to pursue,
And shield thee, and save thee, or perish there too!

Baby Steps to Blogging--I'm a blogger! I blog!!

This is a trial run. If blogging and I don't see eye-to-eye this time around, we're kaput, I mean it. Probably. Oh sure, we had that fling in livejournal. But that was years ago. There wasn't even a name for what we were up to back then. Anyway, what's in this relationship for me? I'm a pseudo-Jean Arthur who's found her Jimmy Stewart. What more can life offer? Let's see what you've got.