Feb.. 23

 

Events:

Feb.. 23 Wolfeboro - 7-9pm - The Country Bookseller, Durgin Stables, N. Main St., Wolfeboro - Poets in the Attic - open mike ( Click here  or 539-4472 ) 

Plymouth, Feb. 23: Features plus an open mike at Mark's Speakeasy Café, 7:30 p.m. (Click here,  603-536-2757)

Every Thursday – 7 pm – Milly’s Tavern, Manchester – Slam Free or Die – Features Beau Williams! and open mike (647-9991 or Click here)

 

Born:

February 23

Click here (1633 – 05/26/1703) English diarist

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Major General Jeremy F Gilmer 1818  General/Chief Engineer Confederate War Department
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 Lewis Cass Hunt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), 18241886
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Victor Fleming 1883-010601949  US director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind)

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W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1868 – 08/27/1963 US sociologist

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Click here 1899-1974 German satirist, poet and novelist

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Click here 1901-90 Swedish author and social critic

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David John Murray Wright (1920– 28 August 1994) author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet".

 

Making the Most of What We Have

 

There's an artist in our home who says
Don't throw that out, I can use it in a collage
or an altered book,
or maybe I’ll make a stamp to use on canvas.

There is someone else in this house who says,
I need that word, so I'll save it
and I'll roll it over my tongue and spit it out
onto a clean page.
It might end up in a poem, yes,
I'm sure it will.

We do recycling here.

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Majel Barrett 1939- Click here, Click here US actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)

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Click here  (1939 – )  US actor

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Johnny Winter (1944 – ) US guitarist

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Passed:

February 23

Owen Felltham (1602-68) Eng poet

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Sir Joshua Reynolds (07/16/1723 –1792) English artist

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Dr. Joseph Warton ( c.1722 -1800) Eng Schoolmaster , Professor of Poetry, Curate,poet

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John Keats (10/31/1795 –1821) English writer /poet

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John Quincy Adams (07/11/1767 –1848) US President

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Joanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851 ) Scottish Poet & Playwright

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Click here  (Click here/1777 –1855)  German mathematician

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Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867-1900), Click here Click here, novelist and writer of short stories,

 

A Last Word

 

1Let us go hence: the night is now at Click here;

2 The day is overworn, the birds all flown;

3 And we have reaped the crops the gods have sown;

4Despair and death; deep darkness o'er the land,

5Broods like an owl; we cannot understand

6 Laughter or tears, for we have only known

7 Surpassing vanity: vain things alone

8Have driven our perverse and aimless band.

 

9Let us go hence, somewhither strange and cold,

10 To Hollow Lands where just men and unjust

11Find end of labour, where's rest for the old,

12 Freedom to all from love and fear and lust.

13Twine our torn hands! O pray the earth enfold

14 Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.

 

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Click here  (Click here/1868 –1955)  French writer

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Stan Laurel (06/16/1890 –1965 English comic, acto

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Jessamyn West (07/18/1902 –1984) US writer

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James Alfred Wight Herriot (03/10/1916 –1995) Scottish veterinarian, writer

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Sites:

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History:

February 23

1940  Click here wrote the lyrics to "This Land is Your Land" — now one of America's most famous folk songs.

 

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Bonus Poem:

 

THE PICTURE OF A BRIGHT WINDOW

I went to the window and said:

"Oh! What glorious sunshine!

What a bright day!

What rich blossoming happiness

Is present in everything!"

I said to myself:

"I will grow with plants,

I will sing with birds,

I will flow with waters."

I said to myself:

"I will drink the day,

- This gold-rimmed goblet

brimful with sunshine -

In one draught!"

I stayed by the window,

I stayed,

And then my small room

began to fill with melancholy,

- Heavy black smoke -

And my desire to grow,

to sing,

to flow

Was the picture of a bright window

In this closed space,

Inside these four walls.

The leaden sky of the dusk

With its melancholy, mourning rain

Was softly crying.

 

-          Meymanat Mirsadeghi

 

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