Mom's Poems and Lyrics
Here are a few memorable lyrics and poems to recite.


• Over in the Meadow


• The Pelican


• The Highwayman


• Toil and Trouble


• A Visit from St. Nicholas
  (The Night Before Christmas)


• Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)


• Fire and Rain


• Into in the West


• Return to Innocence


• Trouble


• Lorien


• Death be not proud

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Other sites by Alysion

Popular Sites:

• Fun with Dimensional Analysis
• Medication Math for the Nursing Student
• WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures
• Poems to Memorize & Memorable Poems
• Alternative Handwriting & Shorthand Systems
• Handywrite
• Small Animal Euthanasia
• Ryan's Favorite Kid Poems
• World's Funniest Jokes

Mindfulness Sites:

• For wisdom follow: The Path of the Dog
• Are You a Doggiesattva?
• The Five Precepts of Buddhism
• The Diamond Sutra: Condensed version
• The Platform Sutra of Huineng: Condensed
• The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
• Ch'an Teachings of Huang Po on One Mind
• Zen and the Art of Mindful Bus Riding
• Beginnings: First Lines from Scriptures
• Two Zen Stories
• 14 Mindfulness Trainings of Thich Nhat Hanh
• 14 Thoughtfulness Trainings
• Westfulness and Eastfulness
• World Religion Simplified
• Mindfulness Meditation Bell, Gong, Timer

Thrival Sites:

• Buyer's Guide to Food Preparedness Products
• Sustainability Issues: From vision to practice
• Survival Retreat? Maybe now is the time
• Battling Bermudagrass
• Human Chow: Cheap Food
• Private Retreat: Alysion Acres

Sustainability Issues:

• Earth at Night: Do you live in the glow?
• Environment, Power, and Society
• The Prosperous Way Up and Down
• Circles of Non-belief: The Federation alternative
• Envision Tucson Sustainable
• Community Urban Micro Farms
• Alternative Farming
• Washing Machine Magic
• Eco-nomy 101: Why you can't do just one thing
• Confessions of a Generalist
• The Post-Car Culture
• Rainwater Catchment: How to harvest scarcity
• Stop Pumping Ground Water
• From Horses to E-cycles: A brief history
• Sustainable Tucson: Hows to sustain
• Ethics of the Borg Collective
• Alternative to the Federation
• Cruise Ship Earth: Enjoy the cruise
•  Expecting the Expected: Disaster happens
•  Understanding the Exponenital Function
•  A Tale of Two Islands
•  Island Ethics: Earth Island as metaphor
• The Book: From beyond the Federation
•  The Ascent of Life: Chapter 1
•  Apocalypse Past: Chapter 2
•  The Reconstruction Era: Chapter 3
•  The Particulars of Human Life: Chapter 4
•  Ascent of the Inquiring Ones: Chapter 5

Satirical Sites:

• Take the Super Post-Mensa IQ Test
• Infidel Guides: Islam, Theism, Atheism, ...
• World Religions Simplified
• The True Right to Life Movement

Literature/Poetry Sites:

• Mom's Favorite Poems
• Lorien: A Poem
• Ryan's Favorite Kid Poems
• Tucson Literati Discussion Group
• Walled-in: A Poem
• Poems to Memorize & Memorable Poems

Interesting Sites:

• Sun Tour America by Solar E-bike
• Sustainable Technology to Enable
• Grammys Urban Micro Farm
• Solar Slow Cooker Design
• Celebrate Inquiry
• Pastaology 101
• Flying Spaghetti Monster Camp
• The Book: An Infidel's Biblia
• Global Warming 123 (bing-bang-boom)
• How to Use OpenSeaDragon
• Battling Bermuda Grass
• San Pedro Valley Community Cultural Center
• One Homestead: An intentional community
• Making Tree of Life: Fun with phylogenetics
• Making Boxes for Rock & Mineral Collection
• Making a Mass Balance Scale
• Ryan's 50 States Flashcards
• Adventures of MeraLee
• eBike Touring Association
• Cochise Stronghold Trail

External Links

• Poets.org
• From the Academy of American Poets.

• Famous Poets and Poems
• Poems and the people who make poems.

• Classic Poetry Aloud
• Hear poetry read aloud.

Top 10 Poems from Alysion's

Bucket List of Poems
to Read Before You Die

•  1. The Rainy Day by Henry W. Longfellow
•  2. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
•  3. A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
•  4. The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess
•  5. If by Rudyard Kipling
•  6. To See a World by William Blake
•  7. Ten Little Limericks
•  8. First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
•  9. Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
• 10. I'm nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson