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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2019 - It‘s a difficult time when we must think of legacies who are gone far too soon before their work is done. I thank MLK for saying “yes” to being chosen as a guiding light & envisioning what a committed people can do. However, as we know there were many voices so today I pulled out an ‘old familiar friend,‘ my falling apart edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry so that I could read Margaret Walker‘s poem,👇🏽

Thomas Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush"
These melancholy, listless days between Christmas and New Year!
I did actually hear a thrush singing in the garden this morning.

Thanks for hosting this #poetrymatters challenge, @LazyDays : I've really enjoyed it! 😊
I'll finish the month with a classic, Robert Frost. #traveller

A Lyke-Wake (i.e corpse-watch) Dirge, from the 15th Century. If that doesn't count as a #crossing then I don't know what does!
#poetrymatters @LazyDays

9-25-18: #emilydickinson 📖

Yusef Komunyakaa

Louise Bogan, "Night"

Can it be fall now, please? #Keats #autumn #poetry

Excellent anthology - you know how sometimes these things pick material that just doesn't go together or make sense bound up in the same text? This edition (the fifth) doesn't have that problem. I'm kind of sorry to be returning it, but my copy was only a rental textbook. (Might want my own someday, though).

Decided tonight I really need to organize my poetry collection and took them off the shelves. I think I'm going to go alphabetically by poet, and then do the anthologies with various poets separately. Wish me luck! BTW when we moved last year I did a big cull (not just poetry but all the books). I wonder if I'll cull some more here as I organize, but probably not many.