Thanks, Davey, for the heads up * * * Is there anything Dana Gioia cannot do with poetry? * * * Former National Endowment for the Arts chair Dana Gioia, who lives in Santa Rosa, is on the committee to select commemorative stamps. On March 3, the Postal Service releases a series of stamps, its […]
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Poetry Postage
02
Feb 2012
Category: Art, beauty, It Is What It Is, Liberal Arts, Literature, Ode, Poetry
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Of late I was privy to that scummy hovel,that breeding ground of licentiousness,the Dallas Aquarium.Yeah, so I saw the bottom of some sharks,and a three-toed sloth (The very name is a sin!),and some jellyfish.I can find no argument against warming the globeif it means wiping these inane things off the planet. Finding my system, and, […]
Category: Dallas Aquarium, Ode, Poetry, Sloth
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Ode to a Nightingale
22
Nov 2008
Ode To A Nightingale ~John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness painsMy sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drainsOne minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,But being too happy in thine happiness,That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,In […]
Category: Keats, Nightingale, Ode, Poetry
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