poetry – Tiffany Brown

Birthday poem for Matthew Gray Gubler #tbt

Today is Matthew Gray Gubler’s birthday and I wrote this poem 8 years ago as part of a birthday video collaboration and thought it was perfect to share again today for throwback Thursday 😁

Snow flakes. (45) by Emily Dickinson | Poetry Foundation

I counted till they danced so
— Read on www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49358/snow-flakes-45

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe #poem

Since today is the anniversary of when Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe was originally published in 1849, I wanted to share it along with a graphic I made in 2014 😁

It was many and many a year ago, — Read on www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee

Fall, leaves, fall by Emily Brontë #poem

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;

Lengthen night and shorten day;

Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow

Blossom where the rose should grow;

I shall sing when night’s decay

Ushers in a drearier day.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52330/fall-leaves-fall

Poetry quote from Robert Frost

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Robert Frost