With Music

With Music

Dear, did we meet in some dim yesterday?

   I half remember how the birds were mute

   Among green leaves and tulip-tinted fruit,

And on the grass, beside a stream, we lay

In early twilight; faintly, far away,

   Came lovely sounds adrift from silver lute,

   With answered echoes of an airy flute,

While Twilight waited tiptoe, fain to stay.

Her violet eyes were sweet with mystery.

   You looked in mine, the music rose and fell

Like little, lisping laughter of the sea;

   Our souls were barks, wind-wafted from the shore-

   Gold cup, a rose, a ruby, who can tell?

     Soft – music ceases – I recall no more.

~ Helen Hay Whitney

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i thank You God for most this amazing

 

i thank You God for most this amazing

i thank You God for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky: and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth

day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any – lifted from the no

of all nothing – human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~ e.e. cummings

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It’s Friday! In April! Celebrate!

http://www.signature-reads.com/2016/04/dash-against-darkness-10-quotes-celebrating-national-poetry-month/

As your Friday bonus please enjoy these quotes celebrating National Poetry Month!

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Tax Day Limericks!!

There was a young fellow from Boise

Who at times was exceedingly noise.
   So his friends’ joy increased
   When he moved way back east
To what people in Brooklyn called Joise.
                                    (John Straley)
A lusty young wench in Toledo

Had a very inflated libido.   When a couple of Finns

   Made her mother of twins
She just hollered with joy, “Oh you keedo.”

Handsome woman. — Lovely bust.
Fine young fellow. — Stirred up lust. —
   Babies’ diapers. —
   Bottom wipers. —
Years of struggle. — Coffin. — Dust.

There was a young couple named Chisholm
Whose wedded life ended in schism.
   When she pulled on her glove
   She found that her love
Had playfully filled it with gism.
 
There was a young lady of Pinner
Whose hubby came home to his dinner.
   And guess what he saw
   As he opened the door :
The arse of the man who was in her.
 
An irate young lady named Booker
Told her husband, “You beast, I’m no hooker!
   If you want it queer ways,
   Go to whores for your lays!”
So he packed up his tool and forsook ‘er.

There was a young lady named Brook
Who never could learn how to cook.
   But on a divan
   She could please any man-
She knew every darn trick in the book!

A highly bored damsel named Brown
Remarked as she laid herself down:
   “I hate to be doing
   This promiscuous screwing,
But what else can you do in this town?”

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Syracuse Poetry event John Hoppenthaler!

 http://cnyarts.org/view/7505/dwc-visiting-author-readings-poet-john-hoppenthaler

Friday, April 15th from 7- 9 pm at the downtown YMCA

Reading by poet John Hoppenthaler. Check the link for more info! 

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Meeting at Night

The gray sea and the long black land;

And the yellow half-moon large and low:

And the startled little waves that leap

In fiery ringlets from their sleep,

As I gain the cove with pushing prow,

And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand.

The a mile of warm sea-scented beach;

Three fields to cross till a farm appears;

A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch

And blue spurt of a lighted match,

And a voice less loud, through joys and fears,

Than the two hears beating each to each!

~ Robert Browning

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At a Dinner Party

At a Dinner Party

With fruit and flowers the board is decked,

   The wine and laughter flow;

I’ll not complain — could one expect

   So dull a world to know?

You look across the fruit and flowers,

   My glance your glances find. —

It is our secret, only ours,

   Since all the world is blind.

~ Amy Levy

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Provisions

Provisions

What should we have taken

with us? We never could decide

on that; or what to wear,

or at what time of

year we should make the journey

So here we are in thin

raincoats and rubber boots

On the disastrous ice, the wind rising

Nothing in our pockets

But a pencil stub, two oranges

Four Toronto streetcar tickets

and an elastic band holding a bundle

of small white filing cards

printed with important facts.

~ Margaret Atwood

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I Wish in the City of Your Heart

 

I Wish in the City of Your Heart

I wish in the city of your heart

you would let me be the street

where you walk when you are most

yourself. I imagine the houses:

It has been raining, but the rain

is done and children kept home

have begun opening their doors.

~ Robley Wilson

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Bill Murray, Oprah & Oatmeal. Oh and a poetry bash?

Welcome to the Friday bonus! Check out this article on Bill Murray, I may actually have to pick up the magazine to read the rest! 

https://www.thereadingroom.com/article/these-are-bill-murray-s-favorite-poems/1492?utm_campaign=340161_newsletter_160405&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Reading%20Room&dm_i=2P56,7AGX,FCPYU,N0RG,1

 Enjoy listening to one of Bill Murray’s favorites here:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/oatmeal-audio-only

And for those of you in the Syracuse area there is a Poetry Bash, Saturday April 9th (yup, tomorrow!) at 2:30 at Petit Branch Library, 105 Victoria Place, Syracuse NY 13210 (315) 435-3636. An open mic poetry event that invites everyone to enjoy, I believe they have goodies and enthusiasm galore. Celebrate poetry like never before! Confetti, silly string and noise makers provided!

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