Monday, May 31, 2021

May 19th, 2004

I am beginning a great process of formatting a very large amount of my poems over a 15 year span-bigger than "Equinox",it has been called *Project End Of Days*; and a bit of verse by Goethe and some Longfellow I came accross seemed just right this afternoon-
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." 
--Goethe
"In broad daylight, yesterday,
I read a Poet's mystic lay;
And it seemed to me at most
As a phantom, or a ghost"
​--Longfellow

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