Great Regulars: Nevertheless, a second voice,

indicated by italics, responds that you get through life by following a four-step plan: First, you walk. Second, you stop. Third, you hurt. Fourth and finally, you simply go on. And of course, while the plan itself is simple, following it not easy.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Dick Allen's 'A Cautionary'

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By placing the flesh of animals into geometric shapes, these meat workers, these Gods, these Great Geometers eliminate the reality that those shapes once lived and breathed, circulated blood, reproduced, and had feelings just as the humans who consume them do. Those animals may not have the brain capacity of the human consumer, but they nevertheless walk around in bodies that work pretty much identically to their human counterparts.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Nemerov's 'Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket'

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Such a bequest is also indicative of a stereotype of the Caucasian as materialist and authoritarian.

Interestingly, the speaker has chosen eye color to designate the Caucasoid, while he uses eye shape to designate the Mongoloid. A strict accounting of eye color and eye shape would reveal that all races have these traits, but the reader will have to suspend certain aspects of science for a clear reading of this poem.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: October Poet--Arna Bontemps

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She then comments on the many socks that she put "into the foam" together "like those creatures in the ark," but after the wash, they are "uncoupled," and her tasks if to make them "paired" again.

Sometimes items shrink, but through sentimentality, they find those items hard to part with "even for Goodwill."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Ritchie's 'Sorting Laundry'

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The Muse is the "influence." It has come directly from her. She can take pride knowing the positive creations she helps create are shining examples of her high quality.

The speaker then compares his use of the Muse to that of other artists and find them lacking.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 78

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To be able to offer at least some token, he has to "rob" what the muse had earlier given him. The act does not make him happy, but he feels that he must do something other than whine and mope.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 79

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The speaker then continues to reveal his actions that enliven and glorify his days. He goes to the river, which is "Aflow in joyous quiver." He sees joy in the ordinary movement of a river. And this ordinary, even mundane, occurrence "soothes" his mind.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's 'For Thee and Thine'

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The speaker again reports that things sometimes seem very dark, and one may feel trapped by the exigencies of earth. At that time, again he questions, "Who shows my path and th' dark beguiles/With mildly mocking moonlit smiles?"

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's 'Thy Call'

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