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A Poem for a Thursday #244
I love Robert Frost’s poetry. He does such a wonderful job describing nature and the landscape. I have featured Frost a few times before but I am always happy to find an excuse to use one of his poems. I scrolled through and saw the title and knew I had found today’s poem. My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walked the sodden pasture lane. Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: She's glad the birds are gone away, She's glad…
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A Book and a Project
Please admire the cowl I knitted. Isn’t it pretty? I am quite happy with it. It was a very easy pattern but it is the first thing I have made that doesn’t have a bunch of egregious mistakes in it. If you see any please don’t tell me. I am now working on a hat with cabling. My personal knitting consultant (one of my co-workers) showed me how to do cables during a break in a day-long boring work meeting. After that, I would like to try simple colorwork. Knitting is a bit addictive. The book is one of my favorites of the British Library Crime Classic volumes of short…
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A Poem for a Thursday #243
It is my considered opinion that it is impossible to feature too many Shakespeare sonnets. Therefore, I am providing another one for your reading pleasure today. Recently, Judi Dench was in the news for her recitation of this sonnet on a TV show. I’ll link the video for you. Judi Dench and Shakespeare; what a wonderful combination. When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon my self and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friend's possessed, Desiring this man's art,…
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Golden Moments #18
It has been a while since I have done one of these posts so if you aren’t familiar with them, this is where I list all the things that have made life special lately; the Golden Moments in life. My husband and I went to Germany recently. That is a whole list of Golden Moments in and of itself but for my purposes here I am listing the time I sat by this pond, read my book, and people-watched while my husband went for a walk in the park. It was lovely and peaceful and we went and bought pastry afterward. What more can you ask of out of a…
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A Poem for a Thursday #242
Greg Pape is the author of a number of award-winning poetry books. His poems have been read on NPR and featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. He served as the poet laureate of Montana from 2007-2009. His poems are frequently inspired by nature, travel, music, and memory. An owl calls across the river. Another answers farther downstream. Stars glitter through the branches of pines and on the back of the river. He sits still, leaning against a tree. The river comes a little closer. Deer come closer. He hears the riffle upstream and the one down. Water eddies and runs susurrous in his mind. Looking up into the…
