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Mrs Elizabeth Darcy

  • Confused

    Why am I not better than every one else? Why am I so average? I am no prettier, No stronger, No smarter, No anything more than my comrades. I am ...

    5 min read
  • Legos

    I dropped my legos on the floor I’d been working on them for a week or more I had a castle, an ocean too, And now they’re gone, all gone, ...

    1 min read
  • Tree-Climbing

    I stood below A maple tree And looked up into the sky. I heard an inward voice cry, “Climb!” It was calling out to me! “See what’s out in your ...

    2 min read
  • The 'Surest' Way

    Though safety we have on the 'surest' way,We may find our greatest adventures layRound the bend in the path, the turn in the roadIt may lead to tempests and troubles ...

    1 min read
  • Theseus and the Minotaur

    An evil king there was, in CreteWho, when the Athenians he did beatDemanded in tribute that eighteen youthNine girls and nine boys, in truthBe given and fed to the MinotaurA ...

    6 min read
  • Baby Poem

    I wrote a baby poem For no one’s good but mineThe metre neatly evenI tried to make it rhyme. I wrote a baby poem, And this I have to say: ...

    1 min read
  • Respect

    I have never mastered the concept of polite interest.

    1 min read


I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.
— Sylvia Plath