Linda Sue Grimes

Image: Linda Sue Grimes - Painting by Ron Grimes, January 2021

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In 1978, I began studying the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, offered by his organization, Self-Realization Fellowship, whose Mother Center is located in Los Angeles, California. I have continued to study those teachings and to follow his Kriya yoga instruction; I became a Kriyaban in 1979. I finished all four Kriya Initiations, circa 2015.

In addition to poems and poetry commentaries, I write essays about history, philosophy, politics, and spirituality. I also create and publish vegetarian/vegan recipes, compose and record my own original songs.

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Life Sketch of James Weldon Johnson

Life Sketch of Robert Hayden

Life Sketch of Henry David Thoreau

Emily Dickinson's "The Soul's Superior instants"

Life Sketch of Gwendolyn Brooks

Life Sketch of William Cullen Bryant

Life Sketch of John Donne

Shakespeare Sonnet 110: "Alas! ’tis true I have gone here and there"

Life Sketch of Rudyard Kipling

Emily Dickinson's "Before the ice is in the pools"

Emily Dickinson's "Snow flakes."

Shakespeare Sonnet 30: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"

Shakespeare Sonnet 29: "When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes"

Shakespeare Sonnet 28: "How can I then return in happy plight"

Shakespeare Sonnet 27: "Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Christmas Bells"

Shakespeare Sonnet 26: "Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage"

Shakespeare Sonnet 25: "Let those who are in favour with their stars"

Shakespeare Sonnet 24: "Mine eye hath play’d the painter and hath stell’d"

Shakespeare Sonnet 22: "My glass shall not persuade me I am old"

Shakespeare Sonnet 21: "So is it not with me as with that Muse"

Shakespeare Sonnet 20: "A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted"

Life Sketch of WWI Poet, Laurence Binyon

Shakespeare Sonnet 19: "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws"

Shakespeare Sonnet 17: "Who will believe my verse in time to come"

Shakespeare Sonnet 16: "But wherefore do not you a mightier way"

Shakespeare Sonnet 15: "When I consider every thing that grows"

Shakespeare Sonnet 14: "Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck"

Shakespeare Sonnet 12: "When I do count the clock that tells the time"

Shakespeare Sonnet 11: "As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st"

Shakespeare Sonnet 10: "For shame! deny that thou bear’st love to any"

Shakespeare Sonnet 9: "Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye"

Shakespeare Sonnet 7: "Lo! in the orient when the gracious light"

Shakespeare Sonnet 6: "Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface"

Swami Sri Yukteswar: Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda

Shakespeare Sonnet 5: "Those hours, that with gentle work did frame"

Shakespeare Sonnet 4: "Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend"

Shakespeare Sonnet 3: “Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest”

Shakespeare Sonnet 2: "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow"

Emily Dickinson's Two Rose Poems: "Nobody knows this little Rose" and "When Roses cease to bloom, Sir"

Shakespeare Sonnet 79: "Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid"

Shakespeare Sonnet 77: "Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear"

Emily Dickinson's "Garland for Queens, may be"

Emily Dickinson's "If recollecting were forgetting"

Paramahansa Yogananda's "The Harvest"

Edgar Lee Masters' "Roger Heston"

Emily Dickinson's “Summer for thee, grant I may be”

Emily Dickinson's "Adrift! A little boat adrift!"

Malcolm M. Sedam’s “Maturity Pains”

Claude McKay's "Spring in New Hampshire"