Tag: poem
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Day 12 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: John Keats, “To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent”
This one goes out to my cyber friend Keatsbabe. Visually I was going for a kind of unrehearsed contrast in this video, keeping the city images throughout, instead of the pastoral scenes Keats supplies up in the poem itself. I think I like the result. The opening scene is of the Chrysler Building, once upon a time the…
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Day # 9 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: William Butler Yeats, “A Model For The Laureate”
As William Butler Yeats said in a letter to Dorothy Wellessley in 1937, “Politics, as the game is played today, are so much foul lying.” It’s impossible for a thinking person not to be bothered by politics in these United States of late, when it seems that the government, local and national is being bought…
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Day # 8 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: “Happiness,” by Carl Sandburg for National Poetry Month
This piece is from Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems, and after the lovely afternoon I had yesterday with family, music, poetry on the sidewalk, singing and just enjoying the fresh air together, this seemed the right poem for a Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately I didn’t get to upload it this afternoon so it’s coming to you a bit…
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Day # 7 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Theodore Roethke’s “The Kitty-Cat Bird” for National Poetry Month
Day 7 was a lot of fun to record. We enjoyed a good lunch of burgers and dogs and headed up the street for some inspiration and fresh air. Other than the possible reading of “The Kitty-Cat Bird” (Micah’s request), we were really not sure what to expect. Spontaneity was Virginia’s word for the day.…
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Saturday Plans for National Poetry Month
My sons are coming tomorrow (read that as later today, since I wrote this in the wee hours before bed), and thanks to Life is an Exquisite Journey’s blog I have some ideas of what we can do on our street and at the park a block away, right by the library. I wonder if…
