Dragonfly's Poetry & Prolixity


Dragonfly: Any of various large insects of the order Odonata or suborder Anisoptera, having a long slender body and two pairs of narrow, net-veined wings that are usually held outstretched while the insect is at rest. Also called regionally darner, darning needle, mosquito fly, mosquito hawk, needle, skeeter hawk.

Poetry: The art or work of a poet.

Prolixity: Excessive wordiness in speech or writing; longwindedness

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

An Embarrassment by Wendell Berry & The Hinge of Spring by Kay Ryan

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  A few Spring-ly girls from my Willow Tree angel collection.   Not that we have many actual flowers yet.  Our Winter has been so '...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Burnt Norton by T. S. Eliot

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BURNT NORTON by T. S. Eliot (No. 1 of 'Four Quartets') I  Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, A...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Charles Wright, Extraordinary Poet

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Got a used first edition in perfect shape.  Thank God for used books.   As often happens with magnificent poetry, I wanted to burn ev...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

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Chasing the moon , 2009     INVICTUS By William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me,       Black as the pit from pol...
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Notes on the Art of Poetry by Dylan Thomas

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Illustration from Pinterest.  Me.   ================   Notes on the Art of Poetry by Dylan Thomas   I could never have drea...
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Sunday, February 2, 2014

I Love Learning New Words

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Snowfall Is So Silent by Miguel de Unamuno

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from Pinterest     Today our snow is melting.  I'll miss it, but it was fun while it lasted...     *   *   *   *   *   * ...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

First Snow, Kerhonkson by Diane di Prima

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    Blizzard once again in the swamps today.     Neighborhood boy headed for the only hill with his wooden 'sled'. ...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Ponder This:

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". . . and my day, which nothing interrupts, is like a clock-face without hands. . ."   Rainer Maria Rilke, from "The Not...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Dust of Snow by Robert Frost....We Have Snow!!!

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It's snowing here for the first time in many, many moons.  The silence is awesome.  I woke at 2 a.m. and noticed the glow coming through...
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