And The Days Are Not Full Enough - Ezra Pound

And the days are not full enough

And the nights are not full enough

And life slips by like a field mouse

     Not shaking the grass.

Nothing Gold Can Stay - Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Victory - Gösta Ågren

The victor has no reason

to compete.  There is nothing

stronger than strength.  Your

victory is only a sign

that you need it.

The Uses of Sorrow - Mary Oliver

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me

a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand

that this, too, was a gift.