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Category Archives: Poetry
Dense — Spring, Yellows and Whites
After a wet winter, the back yard is dense with color: yellow rose, and flowering cherry are in full bloom while the oranges continue to ripen and our camellia opens new blooms daily. This is a great time to be … Continue reading
Wishes — A Poem by Robert Frost
Today the winter oaks are dark against the sky, but in a few weeks, as they turn spring green, the woods will take a softer look. Here is a poem about dark trees and a boy’s thoughts about an uncertain future. One … Continue reading
Path — Walking on Windy Hill
Out for a walk on the path to Windy Hill; it’s the start of winter, but the grass is green and I think of spring. Where am I going? I don’t quite know. What does it matter where people go? Down … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy/Adventure, Photography, Poetry, Travel
Tagged Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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Admiration — Libraries and Antiquarians
Admiration: I like a big sprawling library with open stacks, and Green Library is one of my favorites. Thousands and thousands of books on shelves to pull out and browse. There is a light on in the stacks; maybe someone is browsing. … Continue reading
Posted in Classics, Poetry, Translation
Tagged American Literature, postaweek, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Future — Our future is before us
Treasure Island Job Corps students ignore the Saturday rain and take selfies of San Francisco. Today, I grabbed the camera and headed out to take some rainy day photos — the photo above was taken on Treasure Island. April is poetry … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged postaweek, San Francisco, Sara Teasdale, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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Wow — Spring Is Early This Year
The iPhone camera was overwhelmed by this bed of tulips at Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden in Palo Alto. Wow is the word of the day. A perfect day to get out of the library, explore the outdoors, read a poem … Continue reading
San Francisco — Looking Seaward from Lands End
San Francisco’s 6th Poet Laureate declared: “Everyone is a poet — until proven otherwise.” Parked at Lands End Lookout Hoody’s and sweatshirts from Fisherman’s Wharf Run by my car At the edge they look homeward Then, shivering in the cold … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Lands End, NaPoWriMo, Poet Laureate, postaweek, San Francisco
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Seeds of Evolution — Romantic or Scientific?
Free books, I like free books and what better place to pick one up than the University of Chicago Press. Just in time for Spring, the free book for April is An Orchard Invisible, which opens with this poem fragment … Continue reading
Creation — Children of the Days
A calendar of Human History: Long ago in America Where dense fog hides the mountains Day Keepers weave the story of creation Mouth-to-ear repeating, remembering the days A Quiché appeared at the edge of the forest The indian carried a … Continue reading
Zero To Hero — Donna Tartt spins a murder tale in Vermont
Murdered—Bunny is dead. He’s lying there at the foot of Mt. Cataract buried by a fateful April snow: “He’d been dead for ten days before they found him, you know. It was one of the biggest manhunts in Vermont history— … Continue reading
Posted in Crime novel, Fiction, Mystery, Poetry
Tagged A. E. Housman, American Literature, Bennington College, Donna Tartt, Hampden College, postaweek, The Secret History, Vermont
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