Month: December 2016
7th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1980 John Terry (footballer / soccer player)
Died:
2011 Harry Morgan (actor -M*A*S*H)
On This Day:
1960 Ivory Coast declares its independence (from France)
Have a good Wednesday, 7th December
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Trees
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
– Joyce Kilmer
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6th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1886 Joyce Kilmer (poet)
Died:
1972 Janet Munro (actress)
On This Day:
1877 The first publication of The Washington Post
Have a good Tuesday, 6th December
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The Fall
There was a man who found two leaves and came
indoors holding them out saying to his parents
that he was a tree.
To which they said then go into the yard and do
not grow in the living room as your roots may
ruin the carpet.
He said I was fooling I am not a tree and he
dropped his leaves.
But his parents said look it is fall.
– Russell Edson
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5th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1901 Walt Disney (animator and entertainer)
Died:
1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer)
On This Day:
1970 The Stanley Cup is stolen from the NHL Hall of Fame
Have a good Monday, 5th December
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Tide Rise, Tide Falls, The
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveler to the shore.
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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4th December – On This Day In History
Born:
1930 Ronnie Corbett (comedian – The Two Ronnies)
Died:
1976 Benjamin Britten (composer – The Beggar’s Opera)
On This Day:
1952 Named after the dense, pollution enhanced fog enveloping London, the word ‘smog’ is invented
Have a good Sunday, 4th December
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Rain Is Falling
Rain, rain, its always raining,
Rain, rain, I end up saying,
Rain, rain, please go away now,
Rain, rain, just leave right now,
Rain, rain, don’t know how,
I don’t care how,
To make my rainy day just go away…
So I stand,
in the pouring rain,
So I can,
feel the growing pain,
Of having rain,
coming down like the Armageddon flame.
I can see raindrops playing their game,
Even though they look the same,
I know that there is more to rain……
– the poet
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3rd December – On This Day In History
Born:
1857 Joseph Conrad (author – Heart Of Darkness)
Died:
1919 Pierre A Renoir (painter and sculptor)
On This Day:
1818 Illinois becomes the 21st State of the USA
Have a good Saturday, 3rd December
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The Falling Of The Leaves
Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,
And over the mice in the barley sheaves;
Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us,
And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.
The hour of the waning of love has beset us,
And weary and worn are our sad souls now;
Let us patt, ere the season of passion forget us,
With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.
– William Butler Yeats
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