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Galaxy
noted in a small article: one in a hundred billion galaxies...

 
 
 
 
Featured poem for September by  William Butler Yeats
 
 

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)



I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.


And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.


I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

 

 

 

 

in turns the whole world asleep

 

                   - tc

 

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things... It is a way in which the cold winter rain, the swallows of evening, even the very day in its hotness, and the length of the night become truly alive, share in our humanity, speak their own silent and expressive language.

 
- R. H. Blyth

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Poems of the month:  September  2010
 
 
 
on the street
a person really happy
about something
 
 
     - tc

 

 

the great now
even here at an Outlet Mall,
my knapsack full
of reading enough
for a month

 

-tc

At Mann Library, where I work, there is a link for a Daily Haiku, featuring one poet each month ...