Poetry: Two Quotations about November

From NO!
by Thomas Hood

No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
   No comfortable feel in any member --
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
   No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, --
      November!


From CALENDAR OF HAIKU*
by Jane Merchant

NOVEMBER

Gray day of no blooms
Save briefly, just before dark,
Chrysanthemum sun.

*Source: Together magazine, January 1972

From "Calendar of Haiku" by Jane Merchant

From CALENDAR OF HAIKU
by Jane Merchant

SEPTEMBER

Storms wreck the old bridge;
Today we adjust the past
To fit the future.


Source: Together Magazine (January 1972)

Jane Merchant (1919-1972)

at her typewriter

(Photo by Gerald Fisher)

"No Other Acres" by Jane Merchant

Read the poem "No Other Acres" by American poet Jane Merchant (1919-1972).

Jane Merchant

at her typewriter

(Photo by Gerald Fisher)

From "Calendar of Haiku" by Jane Merchant (1919-1972)

"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work." So said Patricia Clafford. Compare the poem below with that quotation from Patricia Clafford.


From CALENDAR OF HAIKU
by Jane Merchant

FEBRUARY

Snow dazzles dull air.
"Work done, I will watch." But now,
Work done, snow has ceased.


Source: Together Magazine (January 1972)