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Anniversary
for Barbara Davis
Nin Cassian
(November 27th 1924 — )
translated by the poet
... "Life is not only a succession of anniversaries. The in-between times can be difficult and challenging. But I'm not afraid of ageing. I feel rather that advancing through the decades is a kind of triumph, especially if it carries with it some achievements. Anyway, art and poetry proved to be my best investments!"
— Nov 27, 2025 06:18AM
for Barbara Davis
Nin Cassian
(November 27th 1924 — )
translated by the poet
... "Life is not only a succession of anniversaries. The in-between times can be difficult and challenging. But I'm not afraid of ageing. I feel rather that advancing through the decades is a kind of triumph, especially if it carries with it some achievements. Anyway, art and poetry proved to be my best investments!"
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Judi
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Reluctance
...
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost
(March 26th 1874 — January 29th 1963)
— Dec 20, 2025 06:08AM
...
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost
(March 26th 1874 — January 29th 1963)
Judi
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An Arab Love-Song.
Francis Thompson
(December 18th 1859 — November 15th 1907)
... The manuscript languished for six months before the editor, Wilfred Meynell, read it and dedetermined to print it. Thompson proved untraceable, so Meynell published the poems anyway, hoping Thompson would get in touch. When he did, giving his contact address as a local chemist, the two became life-long friends.
— Dec 18, 2025 06:51PM
Francis Thompson
(December 18th 1859 — November 15th 1907)
... The manuscript languished for six months before the editor, Wilfred Meynell, read it and dedetermined to print it. Thompson proved untraceable, so Meynell published the poems anyway, hoping Thompson would get in touch. When he did, giving his contact address as a local chemist, the two became life-long friends.
Judi
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Andrew Marvelll, MP, petitioned the House of Commons for the release of Milton from prison, December 17th 1660.
— Dec 18, 2025 05:50PM
Judi
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Variation on the Word Sleep
...
word that will protect you
from the grief at the centre
of your dreams, from the grief
at the centre. I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in
Margaret Atwood
(November 18rh 1939 — )
— Dec 16, 2025 09:37AM
...
word that will protect you
from the grief at the centre
of your dreams, from the grief
at the centre. I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in
Margaret Atwood
(November 18rh 1939 — )
Judi
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Born in December
for Nancy Marshall
Muriel Rukeyser
(December 15th 1913 — February 12th 1980)
...She argued compellingly for poetry's vital role in society and had an unflinching vision of the world" "Pay attention to what they tell you to forget." Her poetry insists upon the relationship between the world and the individual, and is informed by a life of political engagement.
— Dec 16, 2025 09:04AM
for Nancy Marshall
Muriel Rukeyser
(December 15th 1913 — February 12th 1980)
...She argued compellingly for poetry's vital role in society and had an unflinching vision of the world" "Pay attention to what they tell you to forget." Her poetry insists upon the relationship between the world and the individual, and is informed by a life of political engagement.
Judi
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The earth is blue like a orange
Paul Éuard
(December 14th 1895 — November 11th 1952)
translated by Mary Ann Caws
... The poem "The earth is blue like an orange'. ('La terre est bleu come one orange;) is often upheld as the archetypal surrealist poem.
— Dec 14, 2025 05:27AM
Paul Éuard
(December 14th 1895 — November 11th 1952)
translated by Mary Ann Caws
... The poem "The earth is blue like an orange'. ('La terre est bleu come one orange;) is often upheld as the archetypal surrealist poem.
Judi
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A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day,
Being the Shortest Day
...
At the next world, that is, at the next spring;
For I am every dead thing
in whom love wrought new alchemy.
For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations and lean emptiness.
He ruined me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.
John Donne
(c. June 1572 — March 31st 1631)
— Dec 13, 2025 08:08PM
Being the Shortest Day
...
At the next world, that is, at the next spring;
For I am every dead thing
in whom love wrought new alchemy.
For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations and lean emptiness.
He ruined me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.
John Donne
(c. June 1572 — March 31st 1631)
Judi
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Love
Robert Browning
()May 7th 1812 — December 12th 1889(
...Though Browning outlived his wife by 28 years, he never remarried. A certain Lady Ashburton once proposed to him but he declined, assuring her that his heart lay buried in Florence, and any marriage would be for the benefit of his young son.
— Dec 12, 2025 02:27PM
Robert Browning
()May 7th 1812 — December 12th 1889(
...Though Browning outlived his wife by 28 years, he never remarried. A certain Lady Ashburton once proposed to him but he declined, assuring her that his heart lay buried in Florence, and any marriage would be for the benefit of his young son.
Judi
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High Flight (An Airman's Ecstasy)
John Gillespie Magee Jr
(June 9th 1922 — December 11th 1941)
Within a year, Magee had gained his wings and was sent to Wales to complete his advanced training. 'High Flight' was written on September 3rd 1941, when Magee flew a high altitude test flight in a Spitfire. He sent the poem in a letter to his parents with the note, "I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day, ...
— Dec 12, 2025 05:22AM
John Gillespie Magee Jr
(June 9th 1922 — December 11th 1941)
Within a year, Magee had gained his wings and was sent to Wales to complete his advanced training. 'High Flight' was written on September 3rd 1941, when Magee flew a high altitude test flight in a Spitfire. He sent the poem in a letter to his parents with the note, "I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day, ...
Judi
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He Loves Me
Mark Van Doren
(June 13th 1894 — December 10th 1972)
One of Van Doren's favourite students at Columbia was Thomas Merton, a budding poet who became a Catholic and entered a Trappist monastery after graduating...
— Dec 11, 2025 07:29AM
Mark Van Doren
(June 13th 1894 — December 10th 1972)
One of Van Doren's favourite students at Columbia was Thomas Merton, a budding poet who became a Catholic and entered a Trappist monastery after graduating...
