February 14, 2007
Valentine's Day is Poetry Day: Shakespeare
A simple and beautiful sonnet, expressing love using some of the simplest words in the English language. Only Shakespeare could have written this poem.
SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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beautiful sonnet. just like your eyes annika.
Posted by: Life's a beach at February 15, 2007 09:40 AM (jt8kq)
Posted by: Scof at February 15, 2007 11:04 PM (nE8Mg)
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I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:
http://www.americanlegends.blogspot.com
If you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.
Thanks,
Mark
Posted by: J. Mark English at February 16, 2007 02:43 PM (+OxYx)
Posted by: Casca at February 16, 2007 04:07 PM (2gORp)
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You're admitting impediments. That ain't love.
Posted by: Joules at February 16, 2007 05:58 PM (u4CYb)
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Nice poem! Happy ValentineÂ’s day!
Posted by: Narik at February 19, 2007 03:09 AM (G2+uS)
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February 07, 2007
Wednesday is Poetry to Kick Ass By Day: Robert Burns
My beloved Caps are in a slump. Tonight they were listless and slow, and lost in a shootout to a shitty team...again. Clearly, they need some poetry to stir their blood, and who better to do it than Robert Burns?
Besides, annika and I both missed his birthday last month...January 25.
Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn (1793)
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to Victorie!
Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's power-
Chains and Slaverie!
Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward's grave?
Wha sae base as be a Slave?
Let him turn and flee!
Wha, for Scotland's King and Law,
Freedom's sword will strongly draw,
Free-man stand, or Free-man fa',
Let him on wi' me!
By Oppression's woes and pains!
By your Sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud Usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!-
Let us Do or Die!
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It was just before midnight
Eastern when I posted that. Yeah, I futzed with the time stamp a bit, but what's ten minutes?
Posted by: Victor at February 07, 2007 08:41 AM (1oGDT)
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Kyle, my deepest apologies for deleting your comment! I accidentally double-posted my comment, then selected yours when I went to delete the double comment.
I gotta stop going to hockey and baseball games in the middle of the week.
Nahhh.
Posted by: Victor at February 07, 2007 08:45 AM (1oGDT)
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That is a kick-ass poem Victor!
Posted by: annika at February 07, 2007 08:57 AM (JBltT)
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Go, Robert Burns! http://www.burnsheritagepark.com/ My dad was stationed on a submarine tender (USS Holland) in Dunoon, Scotland from '77 to '79. My goal is to have a cottage there someday and split my time between Dunoon and San Diego. My husband says, "There's nothing to do in Scotland."
Posted by: Joules at February 07, 2007 10:35 PM (u4CYb)
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February 02, 2007
Ground Hog Day Haiku
phil says early spring
biden says obama's clean
long live barbaro
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Ya know, if there could be a three way prez ticket, and the spiritual leader of Tibet joined the two you mentioned, we could see bumper stickers like;
Obama Biden Lama
Posted by: will at February 03, 2007 05:26 AM (h7Ciu)
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Gosh, it's poetry day all over again!
Posted by: Joules at February 03, 2007 08:52 PM (u4CYb)
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Nancy Pelosi
Sticking her head up her butt
Sees Iraq shadow
(do I qualify for a seasonal reference is the question...)
Posted by: Stew at February 03, 2007 09:26 PM (swd4s)
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