I've been listening to David Kincaid's fantastic album The Irish Volunteer, and I can't get enough of it. Today's selection is the title song, sung to the tune of The Irish Jaunting Car (or The Bonnie Blue Flag, as I'm familiar with). Check out more from the album hereI'm going out of town until mid-next week, so it's possible the PotD will be on ( Read more... )

Well, this sure sums up how I've felt for much of this past winter. At present, the snow is melting, the temperature is rising, and the ground is muddy and covered with trash and snow mold (ew). Here's hoping spring will penetrate the monotony and change things up! The text was taken from here.

( Monotony )

My poetry pal sent me the 10th stanza of this poem and I was intrigued so I Googled it. It would seem Garrison Keillor prefers stanza 11. Luckily, I found what I hope is the complete text here. The poem is from the book of the same title, which I'd like to read some time.

( When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone )

Happy Pi Day! Because I'm a nerd I baked two pies to take to work and found a pi poem to post. 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...

( Pi )

This one comes from American Life in Poetry. I'm still feeling very special to be an aunt!

( The Aunts )

My sweet niece is 2 days old today, but she does have a name - Josephine Grace! This is from Songs of Innocence, as you may have guessed.

( Infant Joy )

This is another one found at The Poetry Foundation. I also want to highlight his previously posted For My Daughter.

( Listening )

Today I became an aunt, about which I am indescribably thrilled! I snagged this from The Poetry Foundation.

( A Prayer for My Daughter )

I recently got This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. No time to read it yet, but I randomly opened to this one from a South Korean poet.

( Jasmine )

My poetry pal sent me An Old Man's Winter Night and I was all set to post it until I realized I already had. So I found another Frost instead. I get my Frost poems from here.

( Meeting and Passing )