What can make a Monday better?
Knowing that it's World Poetry Day! Fortunately, my daily Magnetic Poems are NOT the standard by which poetry is judged. There are so many brilliant poets, living and dead, whose words give us insight into emotion, beauty, language, history--every facet of the human condition--not to mention the non-human condition
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How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail ....
It wasn't till much later that I learned that it was by Lewis Carroll, that it was in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and that it was a parody of another poem. I don't remember which one, just that it was about a prissy little somebody that wanted to be like a bee. I think Crocodile is much cooler and I have always loved it. I didn't care for Mrs Burns my teacher very much, and I still don't ( she really should have learned to say my name...) but I think she deserves a little thanks for introducing me to that poem because it's led to a lot of others. I especially like modern Irish poets like Seamus Heaney. I could go on about what I like, but that would make for too long a note, but I always love Crocodile the most, perhaps because I loved it first
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Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night
may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.
It's short. Is it a poem, or just a cunning crafty sentence?
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