Poetry and story

Yesterday in PARADISE ARTIST COLONY poem and story reading with Lyle we did a tribute to one of most talented actors Robin Williams with few clips from his movie Dead poet society. Later Lyle read some wonderful stories. It was nice to see new faces to join our meeting


15:16] Lyle: O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman 


O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

[15:17] Lyle: O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills; 
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.

[15:17] Lyle: O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills; 
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.


[15:24] Ari: I thought of thee, my partner and my guide, as being past away--vain sympathies! 
For, backward, Duddon, as I cast my eyes, I see what was, and is, and will abide;
Still glides the stream, and shall forever glide;
The form remains, the function never dies;
While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, 
We men, who in our morn of youth defied the elements, must vanish;--be it so! 
Enough, if something from our hands have power to live, and act, and serve the future hour;
And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,

We feel that we are greater than we know. - William Wordsworth