The lines in the photograph below are quoted from the poem "You Moved Your Whole Town" by Paul T. Corrigan. To read that poem, click here.
Life in Bits of Poetry and in Other Things | "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." So wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). This blog is primarily for adults.
Friday, March 20, 2020
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
The Color Blue
Here are two quotations about the color blue, one from Scottish novelist and poet George MacDonald (1824-1905) and the other from English essayist, critic and reformer John Ruskin (1819-1900). To read an article about the color blue, click here.
Baby blues
Where did you get those eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
--George MacDonald
Monday, March 16, 2020
A Quotation from Cynthia Ozick
Source of the quotation:
Thoughts from the Mountains
(Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)
(Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)
To read an article about American short-story writer, novelist and essayist Cynthia Ozick, click here.
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Dakota Haiku
Dakotas believe
we will be known forever
by the tracks we leave.
To read an article about the Dakota people, click here.
(Haiku and photo copyright 2020 Monty Gilmer. All rights reserved.)
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