Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?

Kentucky: Where Education Pays

Kentucky, a land of bluegrass, amber bourbon and gorgeous

thoroughbreds—

fine, fine women, too.

Here a UK football coach is worth $4 million &

a basketball coach (the state religion) is

worth $7 million, but

teachers are paid a lot less,

a whole lot less,

but this is Kentucky:

Where Education Pays.

Record A Poem

Suzette's Song

You are my dream

                                      deferred.

                             You are the symphony

                             played but unheard.

                             You are the poem

                             without words.

                             You are my dream

                                      deferred.

© David Cooper 1/9/14

Dunbar High School at Obama Inauguration Parade

For Suzette

The September sky

is blue like

your eyes and

the leaves are

gold like your hair.

Do I dare to compare

you to this autumn day?

 

The blush and

burst of red, orange

and gold before

the snow& ice

and silent death.

 

Gifted are we

with one more

autumn &

all its beauty.

© David Cooper 1/2014

 

Winterscape

                       

 

The bleak and blackened

coldburned winter trees

mirror the forlorn

and forgotten heart

of mine

which is in winter, too.

The brown and brittle

frost dried branches

break

and

fall to

the hard

& frozen ground.

A touch, a smile,

a caress could—

from her—

melt the ice

and bring the spring,

but all lies frozen

and dead in

this ninth circle

of hell.

© David L. Cooper/ January 1, 2014