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Friday, January 01, 2016
Celebrating 10 Years of A Year of Reading: Our 9th Birthday
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Poetry Friday -- The Roundup is HERE!!
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Have you read LITTLE TREE by Loren Long? Franki reviewed it here. (Go ahead and click over. I'll wait. Make sure you watch the 1.5 minute video by Loren Long at the end of her post. )
My poem for today is the late 1800's version of LITTLE TREE. Both Long and Thomas remind us that change is hard, but necessary.
It might be time for you to let go of some leaves. Have faith that some sort of spring will come. Believe that you can (you will!) continue to grow.
Have a happy new year. And a brave one.
Winter Leafage
by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925)
Each year I mark one lone outstanding tree,
Clad in its robings of the summer past,
Dry, wan, and shivering in the wintry blast.
It will not pay the season’s rightful fee,—
It will not set its frost-burnt leafage free;
But like some palsied miser all aghast,
Who hoards his sordid treasure to the last,
It sighs, it moans, it sings in eldritch glee.
A foolish tree, to dote on summers gone;
A faithless tree, that never feels how spring
Creeps up the world to make a leafy dawn,
And recompense for all despoilment bring!
Oh, let me not, heyday and youth withdrawn,
With failing hands to their vain semblance cling!
Each year I mark one lone outstanding tree,
Clad in its robings of the summer past,
Dry, wan, and shivering in the wintry blast.
It will not pay the season’s rightful fee,—
It will not set its frost-burnt leafage free;
But like some palsied miser all aghast,
Who hoards his sordid treasure to the last,
It sighs, it moans, it sings in eldritch glee.
A foolish tree, to dote on summers gone;
A faithless tree, that never feels how spring
Creeps up the world to make a leafy dawn,
And recompense for all despoilment bring!
Oh, let me not, heyday and youth withdrawn,
With failing hands to their vain semblance cling!
Celebrating 10 Years of A Year of Reading: Our 8th Birthday
It seems hard to believe, but we are coming to the end of our 10th year of blogging! To celebrate, we will look back on our blog birthday posts through the years. Join us as we revisit our birthday posts. Today is Day 8 of our 10 Day Birthday Celebration!
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Celebrating 10 Years of A Year of Reading: Our 7th Birthday
It seems hard to believe, but we are coming to the end of our 10th year of blogging! To celebrate, we will look back on our blog birthday posts through the years. Join us as we revisit our birthday posts. Today is Day 7 of our 10 Day Birthday Celebration!
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Celebrating 10 Years of A Year of Reading: Our 6th Birthday
It seems hard to believe, but we are coming to the end of our 10th year of blogging! To celebrate, we will look back on our blog birthday posts through the years. Join us as we revisit our birthday posts. Today is Day 6 of our 10 Day Birthday Celebration!
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Monday, December 28, 2015
Celebrating 10 Years of A Year of Reading: Our 5th Birthday
It seems hard to believe, but we are coming to the end of our 10th year of blogging! To celebrate, we will look back on our blog birthday posts through the years. Join us as we revisit our birthday posts. Today is Day 5 of our 10 Day Birthday Celebration!
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Celebrating 10 Years of A Year of Reading: Our 4th Birthday
It seems hard to believe, but we are coming to the end of our 10th year of blogging! To celebrate, we will look back on our blog birthday posts through the years. Join us as we revisit our birthday posts. Today is Day 4 of our 10 Day Birthday Celebration!
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Celebrating 10 Years of A Year of Reading: Our 3rd Birthday
It seems hard to believe, but we are coming to the end of our 10th year of blogging! To celebrate, we will look back on our blog birthday posts through the years. Join us as we revisit our birthday posts. Today is Day 3 of our 10 Day Birthday Celebration!
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| Photo Credit: Puschinka (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schokoladentorte_Buttercreme_Tulpen_dritter_Geburtstag_001.JPG) For our 3rd birthday: THREE: The First Three THREE: The Second of Three THREE: The Third of Three |
Friday, December 25, 2015
Celebrating 10 Years of A Year of Reading: Our 2nd Birthday
It seems hard to believe, but we are coming to the end of our 10th year of blogging! To celebrate, we will look back on our blog birthday posts through the years. Join us as we revisit our birthday posts. Today is Day 2 of our 10 Day Birthday Celebration!
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For our 2nd birthday we had a 4 day Blog Birthday Gala!
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Poetry Friday -- Christmas Wishes
O what a glory doth this world put on
For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth
Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks
On duties well performed, and days well spent!
For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves
Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings.
He shall so hear the solemn hymn, that Death
Has lifted up for all, that he shall go
To his long resting-place without a tear.
from Autumn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wishing you the glory of the world, a fervent heart, days well spent, and a bright and glorious sky. Merry Christmas!
Irene has the roundup this week at Live Your Poem.
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