Month: December 2018
The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown
The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown
In Chrysoprase Apartments hung
This afternoon put on –
How condescending to descend
And be of Buttercups the friend
In a New England Town –
– Emily Dickinson
31st December – On This Day In History
Born:
1937 Anthony Hopkins (actor – Silence Of The Lambs)
Died:
2015 Natalie Cole (singer)
On This Day:
1983 Brunei gains independence (from Britain)
Have a good Monday, 31st December
The Spider As An Artist
The Spider as an Artist
Has never been employed –
Though his surpassing Merit
Is freely certified
By every Broom and Bridget
Throughout a Christian Land –
Neglected Son of Genius
I take thee by the Hand –
– Emily Dickinson
30th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1865 Rudyard Kipling (author – Jungle Book)
Died:
1970 Sonny Liston (boxer)
On This Day:
1947 Romania declared a republic
Have a good Sunday, 30th December
A Spider Sewed At Night
A Spider sewed at Night
Without a Light
Upon an Arc of White.
If Ruff it was of Dame
Or Shroud of Gnome
Himself himself inform.
Of Immortality
His Strategy
Was Physiognomy.
– Emily Dickinson
29th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1972 Jude Law (actor – The Talented Mr Ripley)
Died:
2012 Tony Greig (England cricket captain and commentator)
On This Day:
1845 Texas admitted as the 28th State of the USA
Have a good Saturday, 29th December
I Thought The Train Would Never Come
I thought the Train would never come –
How slow the whistle sang –
I don’t believe a peevish Bird
So whimpered for the Spring –
I taught my Heart a hundred times
Precisely what to say –
Provoking Lover, when you came
Its Treatise flew away
To hide my strategy too late
To wiser be too soon –
For miseries so halcyon
The happiness atone –
– Emily Dickinson
28th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1954 Denzel Washington (actor – St Elsewhere)
Died:
1734 Rob Roy (Scottish hero)
On This Day:
1846 Iowa becomes the 29th State of the USA
Have a good Friday, 28th December
The Reticent Volcano Keeps
The reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan –
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.
If nature will not tell the tale
Jehovah told to her
Can human nature not survive
Without a listener?
Admonished by her buckled lips
Let every babbler be
The only secret people keep
Is Immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
27th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1822 Louis Pasteur (invented pasteurization)
Died:
2016 Carrie Fisher (actress – Star Wars)
On This Day:
1943 The Scharnhorst (German battleship) sinks in the Barents Sea
Have a good Thursday, 27th December
