pickYears ago, I came across the poem “The Taxi” by Amy Lowell, and its final line has lived in my brain ever since: “Why should I leave you, / To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?” I‘ve meant to read a collection of her poetry ever since, but we all know how the TBR intentions sometimes go. So when it became apparent that in spite of my best intentions in January, I definitely wasn‘t going to get around to reading any (let alone all ⤵️
Classic religious poetry that I doubt I'll finish in time for Eid (not that I'd planned on that, but it would have been nifty) or before the end of the poetry quarter of #classicschallenge2025 because it's quite involved...
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An excerpt from In the ‘Gu̇la̋nda‘ Bookshop by Kazakh author Yerlan Junis, a poem about books, bookshops, bookshelves and poets from an anthology available for free on https://www.cambridge.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/Kazakh_Poetry_Book... I don't mind that type of soft power move 😁 👏
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Naġašy = maternal relative
Since we finally had the first touches of spring this weekend, it always makes me think of this amazing poem. Here's the first stanza:
Vorfrühling (Early Spring)
"Es läuft der Frühlingswind
Durch kahle Alleen,
Seltsame Dinge sind
In seinem Wehn"
Roughly: The Spring wind runs/through bare-branched alleys/strange things are/in its blowing
It rhymes in the German original?
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For my first #classicschallenge2025, I am reading a 7th-century collection of love poems dedicated to Leyla by the poet/narrator Majnun - the Arab Romeo and Juliet.
And as it happens, yesterday was Epiphany, which we celebrate with a cake/pie with a small figurine hidden inside. Whoever finds it is the king/queen. I got it, and it's in the exact same colour scheme as the book's cover!
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Happy New Year, Littens!✨️🎉
New year, new reads!
For this rather relaxed challenge, we focus on different classic works of literature, starting with some poetry in the first months of the year while waiting for spring!
To participate, read poems from collections, a novel in verse, or maybe focus on one poet - anything from your classics shelf goes!
#classicschallenge2025
Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2824138
Here are the three books that I intend on reading over time. War and Peace, and A Tree a Day will be read over the entire year. Hope is the Thing with Feathers is a book of poems by Emily Dickinson and will read in the first quarter of 2025 for the #ClassicsChallenge2025 @Lunakay
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Happy New Year, Littens!✨️🎉
New year, new reads!
For this rather relaxed challenge, we focus on different classic works of literature, starting with some poetry in the first months of the year while waiting for spring!
To participate, read poems from collections, a novel in verse, or maybe focus on one poet - anything from your classics shelf goes!
Share your reads and tag me!🤗
#classicschallenge2025
This collection, published in 1919, is made up of two halves. The first is filled with tiny, exquisite poems that play with Chinese and Japanese forms, creating gorgeous crystal-clear images in word pictures. I had a hard time putting it down, savoring bite-sized poem after poem. ⤵️ 2d
Link to her poem “The Taxi” (which isn‘t in this collection): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42984/the-taxi 2d