The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown
The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown
In Chrysoprase Apartments hung
This afternoon put on –
How condescending to descend
And be of Buttercups the friend
In a New England Town –
– Emily Dickinson
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23rd June – On The Day In History
Born:
1963 Colin Montgomerie (golfer)
Died:
1995 Jonas Salk (discovered the polio vaccine)
On This Day:
1994 South Africa is readmitted to the UN
Have a good Tuesday, 23rd June
Spring Comes On The World
Spring comes on the World –
I sight the Aprils –
Hueless to me until thou come
As, till the Bee
Blossoms stand negative,
Touched to Conditions
By a Hum.
– Emily Dickinson
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22nd June – On This Day In History
Born:
1903 John Dillinger (outlaw, one of America’s most wanted of the time)
Died:
1987 Fred Astaire (actor, dancer)
On This Day:
1611 Henry Hudson set adrift by mutineers in Hudson Bay, never to be seen again
Have a good Monday, 22nd June
A Little Madness In The Spring
A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown –
Who ponders this tremendous scene –
This whole Experiment of Green –
As if it were his own!
– Emily Dickinson
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Even Though We’ve Lived Apart (A Tribute To My Father)
A tribute to my father today. A man who raised four children as a widower. How he kept it together we’ll never comprehend. And even although we are scattered around the world now, the influence of this wonderful man keeps as all together…
So here’s a poem I found.
Even though we’ve lived apart, I do not love you less. There’s provision in the heart For storing tenderness.
There’s a love that like a star Must reconfigure space To turn the far-flung wanderers Towards some predestined grace.
Time matters not, nor pain, nor death, Nor fate as hard as stone. This truth needs but a single breath, And that we now have known.
Ah, Father! What a joy to live With love at last expressed! Life has no greater gift to give Than that with which we’re blessed.
– Nicholas Gordon
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21st June – On This Day In History
Born:
1982 Prince William (Duke of Cambridge)
Died:
2003 Leon Uris (best selling author)
On This Day:
1633 Galileo Galilei is forced, by the Inquisition, to “abjure, curse and detest” his Copernican views
have a wonderful Sunday, 21st June!
The Inundation of the Spring
The inundation of the Spring
Enlarges every soul –
It sweeps the tenement away
But leaves the Water whole –
In which the soul at first estranged –
Seeks faintly for its shore
But acclimated – pines no more
For that Peninsula –
– Emily Dickinson
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20th June – On This Day In History
Born:
1950 Lionel Richie (musician)
Died:
1947 Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (gangster)
On This Day:
1837 England issues its first postage stamp (1p Queen Victoria)
Have a good Saturday, 10th June.
The Hawk
Call down the hawk from the air;
Let him be hooded or caged
Till the yellow eye has grown mild,
For larder and spit are bare,
The old cook enraged,
The scullion gone wild.’
‘I will not be clapped in a hood,
Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,
Now I have learnt to be proud
Hovering over the wood
In the broken mist
Or tumbling cloud.’
‘What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
Last evening? that I, who had sat
Dumbfounded before a knave,
Should give to my friend
A pretence of wit.’
– William Yates
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