Archive for Verse
My random-book-picker recently picked a collection of Coleridge verse and prose from my unread-books shelves. It’s a hardcover roughly the size of a mass-market paperback. It’s 350 pages of Coleridge’s writing, plus a hundred pages of notes at the end. But what makes it unusual is that the notes are in Russian. (The verse and […]
The winter solstice arrived here in the northern hemisphere about 45 minutes ago. (And the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere, of course.) Here’s my usual reposting of two winter-solstice verses. First, from T. S. Eliot‘s “Burnt Norton” (1935): At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; […]
The winter solstice arrived in the northern hemisphere about six hours ago. (And the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere, of course.) Here’s my usual reposting of some winter-solstice verses. First, an excerpt from T. S. Eliot‘s “Burnt Norton” (1935): At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor […]
About ten hours ago, the vernal equinox arrived here in the northern hemisphere. In honor of that, here's my traditional...
Winter solstice is impending in the northern hemisphere; it'll be about eight hours from now. I'm glad that the days...
I just realized this is one of the things that some of the rhyme-chains in Hamilton reminded me of: ”Now...
Back in May, I posted about Hamilton, the new hip-hop Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ever since...
Among the books I rescued from my father's house were six books of poems by Gary Snyder. I don't know...
A couple months ago, I was riding my bike home from work and I made some kind of minor interacting-with-other-people-in-traffic...
Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is due to occur about seven hours from now. I'll be on a plane...
Thursday I wasn't up to posting my usual cheerful vernal-equinox post, and then I had no time Friday and then...
Can't sleep—have been sick all week, and although I've been getting gradually better, tonight my neck started hurting to the...