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As your Friday bonus please enjoy these quotes celebrating National Poetry Month!
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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.
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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Darling Coffee
The periodic pleasure
of small happenings
is upon us –
at the farmer’s market
snow glinting in heaps,
a cardinal its chest
puffed out, bloodshod
above the piles of awnings,
passion’s proclivities;
you picking up a sweet potato
turning to me ‘This too?’ –
query of tenderness
under the blown red wing.
Remember the brazen world?
Let’s find a room
with a window onto elms
strung with sunlight,
a cafe with polished cups,
darling coffee they call it,
may our bed be stoked
with fresh cut rosemary
and glinting thyme,
all herbs in due season
tucked under wild sheets:
fit for the conjugation of joy.
~ Meena Alexander
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You See I Want a Lot
You See I Want a Lot
You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
So many live on and want nothing,
and are raised to the rank of prince
by the slippery ease of their light judgments.
But what you love to see are faces
that do work and feel thirst.
You love most of all those who need you
as they need a crowbar or a hoe.
You have not grown old, and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
(translated by Robert Bly)
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