Spring Break

   Hello to all,
   First off, I'd like to state that I sadly just signed up at poets.org for the daily poems. Therefore, I've been shifting through a bunch of different poetry topics to find different poems that sound interesting. So far, I've found four I really liked.
   1) Red Slippers, by Amy Lowell. I really liked this poem because you see it so much in everyday life. Maybe you actually are shopping, maybe you aren't, but you see something that you can't or won't have. So you're stuck wishing for it, sometimes even after you walk away.
   2) The Land of Nod, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Unsurprisingly, this particular piece of poetry is centered around dreams. It tells of how you go into a different world when you dream, how how it can be scary and wonderful. However, you can't quite ever go back (at least not to the same dream), which can be both a good thing and a bad thing.
   3) To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell. First off, whoever put this poem into the "love" section of the site was a complete moron. They likely didn't take the time to bother figuring out what it really meant. Kinda like being told a certain word means "Hello" in a foreign language and then accidentally swearing at the person from that country without meaning to, cause you think that word means hello. Basically, don't ever give the poem as a lovey-dovey thing. Anyway, I'll post the poem here. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16076
   4) The Sandman, by Margaret Thomson Janvier. The poem is basically just about going to sleep, and about the Sandman who makes it happen. He closes people's eyes at night. It's sweet.
   As for books I've read over break, I've been trying to work my way through two German travel guides on some old castles. I've been feeling like my German has been getting rusty lately, so I thought the books (which are in German) would be a good challenge. I also read a story in poetry, The Sign of the Seahorse, by Graeme Base. It's about sea creatures living in a coral reef that's becoming polluted, and they must follow the seahorses to a new reef. I also am re-reading The Hobbit by Tolkien, since I haven't read it in a good amount of time.