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National Poetry Month, day four
I found this poem in the collection Good Poems for Hard Times, edited by Garrison Keillor. It’s a moody poem, not at all optimistic, as it hinges upon an unmet person at an awful time in their lives. It casts … Continue reading
National Poetry Month, day three
An unabashed love poem by Christina Rosetti. This is one of the more heartbreaking poems I know, because it unflinchingly stares at the certainty that all love must end, and that the inevitable ending provides those left behind with terrible … Continue reading
National Poetry Month, day two
I was going to spend a little time this morning selecting a poem for today…and then I saw this on Tumblr. It’s a poem by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by an artist named Chris Riddell. Since Gaiman himself posted it on … Continue reading
National Poetry Month, day one
April is National Poetry Month! And every year I forget about it completely, not realizing that we’re in the midst of National Poetry Month until April 19 or some such thing. Well, not this year! My goal is to post … Continue reading
“Come, my friends, ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
Today on Twitter, the indispensible Sheila O’Malley reminded me that today is the birthday of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Actually, it’s a misnomer to call it a “reminder”, as I never knew Tennyson’s birthday in the first place. But I should … Continue reading
A thought
Can we move National Poetry Month to October? Because October is awesome, and April sucks.
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers…!”
On October 25, 1415, five hundred eighty-five years ago, a greatly outnumbered English force dealt a crippling military defeat to the French army at a field called Agincourt. Before the battle, the English King, Henry the Fifth, had to rouse … Continue reading
Wow….
I assume that NBC, in a story about the Georgian luger killed the day the Olympics began, just quoted the AE Housman poem that I quote in this old post, because I’m suddenly getting lots of search engine hits for … Continue reading
Nevermore
Edgar Allan Poe was born two hundred years ago today. I’ve always loved Poe, and he wrote my favorite poem of all time, “Annabel Lee”: Way back when this blog was young, I wrote about “Annabel Lee”. And here’s a … Continue reading
I dream of verse, but live in prose
All month I’ve been aware that it’s National Poetry Month, and all month I’ve been thinking, “Hey, it’s all month long, I can post something about it at some point.” And wouldn’t you know: now it’s the last day of … Continue reading