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Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers | Poems Rethabile Likes Courage – It Takes More by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers It takes more than breath to be alive more than blood to find your line more than a hand to throw a stone; it takes a heart, a heart beaten into bricks and built into a house a house where humanity finds a home. The house is in the street and the street lies on the land, a land of corpses and speeches, a land of lies. The lies we tell to keep the best for our own – family country god whatever we imagine is our home. The best of us are rivers who give themselves to oceans, rivers who ...
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Hap by Thomas Hardy | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Hap by Thomas Hardy | Poems Rethabile Likes Hap by Thomas Hardy If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, that thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!" Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? —Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . These pu...
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Louisiana Line by Betty Adcock | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Happy Birthday, Betty Adcock! | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, Betty Adcock! Poet · Teacher · Editor · born 16 September 1938 Today we celebrate the birthday of Betty Adcock — one of the finest poets of the American South. Here is her haunting poem, “Louisiana Line,” a meditation on place, memory, and the way history keeps speaking through the things we build and leave behind. The poem moves with the quiet precision that characterizes Adcock's best work — cotton gins and icehouses, porch swings and lopped gates, and a wind that lifts "the thin flags of the town." Adcock was born on this day in 1938 in San Augustine, Texas, and has lived much of her life in North Carolina. She published six collections of poetry, including Walking Out , Beholdings , and Rough Fugue , and recei...
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