April 5, 2006
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April is Poetry Month!
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it,
Whenever you’re right, shut up.~Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it,
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash
Comments (8)
Love Ogden Nash.
Got my comments fixed on the blogspot by choosing a new template and republishing everything.
Yay for me.
How wonderful! All that comes to my head now is “The rain is raining all around….” by R.L. Stevenson. The jr. hi kids at school are doing a unit on poetry and their teacher is WONDERFUL. One of my favorites that they read was the cremation of Sam Megee (sp?)- but I had only heard it quoted aloud growing up, so it was fun to have it written. They thought it was morbid for the most part, but having lived in AK, sitting around the woodstove telling stories and poetry “of an evening”, the poem comes with good memories as well. You know, I never considered myself a “poetry person”, but poems have been part and parcel of my entire life. My Grandparents and parents were always quoting or reading poems- all kinds, sad, boring, exciting, funny, contemplative and otherwise. But my husband is certainly a poet, and definitly 3 of my children! (Read the poem Terry sent to your husband. THAT was interesting wasn’t it??)
Dana, I love your new picture on your blog. I’m impressed that you fixed the comments. I always need my techno-wizard boys to help me.
Bonnie, you have such a rich heritage. I’m trying to give to my last child at home what I missed with the older boys. For a few years we’ve been reading a poem aloud every day and just finished one anthology. I have really enjoyed Robert Service’s poems (Cremation, Yukon something, etc.) I have a collection of his poems on my shelf, bought at the last book fair, but still (sigh) unread. I have to install Corel on my new computer so Curt can read Terry’s poem. I remember a poem Jenny wrote when she was 9 about a horse in a meadow – it got kudos from Bernie, high praise, indeed!!
You know what Collin likes? Reading Wodehouse or Chesterton and *getting* the literary references!! One day we read Rudyard Kipling’s “Boots” (boots, boots, boots, boots, boots, boots…it goes on). That very same day Collin read a Jeeves and Wooster story and Bertie said, “That reminds me of ‘Boots’.”
I love your life.
I want more children! As my grandfather always said, start where you are, it’s the only way to get there.
Can you believe I just dicovered R. Service? (Thanks to Bonnie and Kathy V.)
btw: Thanks for the poem. Right on the money.
Here’s my simple contibution. The first poem I ever memorized as an adult. Still love it.
Simply the prettiest expression of iambic pentameter I know. Iambic is often a bit clunky (ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum) but Frost makes it work so well.
I have purposed to read Doktor Faust this summer to get a little more classical iambic.
Blessings,
Archie
THE PASTURE
I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;
I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan’t be gone long. — You come too.
I’m going out to fetch the little calf
That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan’t be gone long. — You come too.
R. Frost.
You might try miy favorite Frost link! Sung by the “Two by Fours.” 1958. http://www.andover.edu/english/jgould/singingmuse/pasture.html
Hi Mom !
I got to meet Gavin last Sunday! he’s just Great! A little shy, but he more than makes up for it in fast running!
My life was influenced by Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’… I was about 16 when I realised that my way had diverged greatly from my peers and would never be the same. Thanks to my 6th grade teacher, Ed Plass, I had to learn several but that has stuck with me and been almost a consolation when I get to feeling out of sync with my peers, or lack there of (I don’t mean that I am ‘above’ any (peerless), but just sometimes feel without any peers since we moved, which is not true, because I have friends, but sometimes lack the old ones) too weird…yet choosing the one less traveled by does make all the difference.
Tired Brenda
LOL, the last like is the hardest I think.
Heather
i uhhh…wouldn’t know about that….i’m uhhhh…not married…yet…HAHAHA!!!!