Archive for Verse
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...
Yesterday was Mary Anne's and my fifteenth anniversary. I've been thinking about relationships, and about Wendell Berry's poem “The Country...