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Tag Archives: poetry
Something for Thursday
Sticking with the theme for this month (which I’ve only just now decided was a theme for this month), here in National Poetry Month, I’ll continue exploring the intersection of music and poetry. Back when I was a serious music … Continue reading
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Tuesday Tones
In keeping with National Poetry Month, here is one of my favorite poems: “The Splendour Falls” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, who also happens to be my favorite poet. The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story;The … Continue reading
National Poetry Month, 1
April is National Poetry Month. I can’t promise I’ll share a poem every day, but I’ll give it a shot. First up is a short poem that packs quite a punch the more you mull it over: The Lover in … Continue reading
An Irish Poem
For St. Patrick’s Day, obviously. All the words that I utter, And all the words that I write,Must spread out their wings untiring, And never rest in their flight,Till they come where your sad, sad heart is, And sing to you in the … Continue reading
“Returning feet and voices at the door”
A poem by JRR Tolkien. This appears in The Fellowship of the Ring, recited by Bilbo just after he has given Frodo his old sword and his old shirt of mithril. Remember that when Bilbo left The Shire, early in the book, … Continue reading
So much depends upon a red cableknit sweater
I don’t knowabout a wheelbarrow but things also depend on a redcableknit sweater old and wornand soft like the blue-and-whitestriped overallspaired with it (Apologies to William Carlos Williams) There used to be a store in the malls, back in the … Continue reading
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Edgar Guest on Taxation: a poem
Today is April 15, Tax Day! And it’s still April, National Poetry Month, so after a few minutes of Googling “poems about taxes”, here’s one that’s actually not entirely pessimistic about whole affair. I could go on for a bit … Continue reading
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National Poetry Month begins….
A Ballad of Baseball Burdens The burden of hard hitting. Slug away Like Honus Wagner or like Tyrus Cobb.Else fandom shouteth: “Who said you could play? Back to the jasper league, you minor slob!” Swat, hit, connect, line out, get on the job.Else … Continue reading
“My City”
I read the poem below yesterday, and its simple theme resonated strongly with me. The poet, the great James Weldon Johnson (perhaps best known for penning the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, the hymn that has come to … Continue reading
“I will seek not the shadowy region”
In her review of a new movie about Emily Bronte, titled Emily, Sheila O’Malley cites two lines from one of Bronte’s poems: I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. Somehow I’d never … Continue reading