POETS Day! Rudyard Kipling and a Very Unlucky Jack
This week’s poem is from Rudyard Kipling. He uses the word “tide” a lot and that endears it to me as my beloved Crimson Tide is due to play a football playoff game this afternoon
Author: Ben Sears
POETS DAY: Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory
Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, a Yuletide tradition by many and one that I remember fondly first reading about twenty minutes ago
POETS Day – Chaucer’s Prologue and High School
We say Shakespearian and act as if that’s archaic. It’s not. It’s Modern. Chaucer wrote in Middle English. We need a sec.
POETS Day: James Matthew Wilson’s XIII from The Hanging God
The Hanging God as a book is a demonstration of the poet’s ability. He refuses to be bound by any one style as he shows an affinity for many.
POETS Day: Robert Herrick and Virgins That He Thinks Need to Hurry Up and, Well…
Four stanzas with an abab, cdcd, etc. rhyme scheme. Robert Herrick may or may not break from that depending on how you pronounce “flower”
POETS Day! The Tay Bridge Disaster
I’m going to do something awful to you. I’m going to give you William McGonagall’s The Tay Bridge Disaster. Have you ever listened to Bjork?
POETS Day: The Unholy Reality That Is/Was Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas lived fast and died young. I’ve no idea what the state of his corpse was, but he left behind something beautiful.
POETS Day! The John Milton Edition
It’s time for a P.O.E.T.S. Day – Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. I’ve chosen one of Milton’s sonnets: “How Soon Hath Time.”
How Do You Define Intelligence?
A recurring subject is the nature of intelligence. What makes a person smart? These are people that consider and argue.
I, Tiberius: Robert Graves on Caligula
Graves attributed to Tiberius this: “I am nursing a viper for the Roman people, and Phaethon for the whole world.” Graves meant Caligula.
Maybe Today I’ll Debate George Carlin
Why do I have to be silenced if you are so unequivocally correct? I should be fodder. You should relish the debate and crush me and hold me up as a warning to others, but the urge is to silence.
Mayo Is Evil: A Brief History
I hate mayonnaise. I hate it desperately. I think mayo is vile. My wife thinks it’s evil. Distinction without a difference.
