Nov 11

Veteren’s day

Events:

Tuesday

Nov 13,Newmarket Zion Hill Poetry open mike at The Stone Church ..doors open at 6:30 and we will start by 7 - Enjoy a full kitchen and bar and (as always) Feature is Jade Sylvan!  bluegrass will follow afterwords. Contact: Beau Williams Click here   Click here

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Nov 13  Portland Click here  375 Fore Street Portland All Ages $3 Cover7-10pm (Open Mic . 7:30 feature at 8:30) Click here

Thursday:

November 15 Manchester, Slam Free or Die– Open Mic & Christopher Sims, AKA UniverSouLove, is an original writer of hip-hop rhymes, captivating spoken word, poetry 7-11pm ($3 cover, Milly’s Tavern, 500 Commercial Street, Manchester, New Hampshire 03101  Mark Palos, 603.858.3286, Click here ,  Click here  )

Born:

11/11

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 1821- February , 1881 Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment)

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Click here  (1836 – Click here/1907)  US writer-, author  The Story of a Bad Boy /editor / No Songs in Winter

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                                                                                       from  EPILOGUE

Click hereClick hereTHE leafless branches snap with cold;

Click hereThe night is still, the winds are laid;

Click hereAnd you are sitting, as of old,

Click hereBeside my hearth-stone, heavenly maid!

Click hereWhat would have chanced me all these years,

Click hereAs boy and man, had you not come

Click hereAnd brought me gifts of smiles and tears

Click hereFrom your Olympian home?

Click hereClick here"The blackest cloud that ever lowers,"

Click hereYou sang when I was most forlorn,

Click here"If we but watch some patient hours,

Click hereTakes silver edges from the morn."

Click hereThanks for the lesson; thanks for all,

Click hereNot only for ambrosia brought,

Click hereBut for those drops which fell like gall

Click hereInto the cup of thought.

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Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds ( 1917 - January 30, 1983) American Click here writer.

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Click here Click hereClick here1919-Nov 20,2000 Finnish writer

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Click hereClick here  (1922 – Click here/2007)  US writer

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Click hereClick here (1928 – )  Mexican writer La muerte de Artemio Cruz

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Passed:

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Click here    (Click here/1813 –1855)  Danish philosopher Father of existentialism

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            LAPSED EXISTENTIALIST

I must confess that I've become annoyed
by seeing naught about me but the void,
and so I clutch and cling to lots of stuff
but never seem to gather quite enough.
How many loves and dollars will it take
to fill me up and my grim thirsting slake?
This question occupies each waking hour,
and all the while my mood grows dark and dour.
I wish this could be called philosophy,
yet fear it's just a dreary travesty.
I'd hoped that for my courage I'd be known,
but ended up a dreary rhyming drone.
I'm nothing but a boring pessimist,
a lapsed and defrocked existentialist.

                              Tom Greening

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Click here  (Click here/1793 –1880)  US social reformer

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Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 – 1964) American Click here author

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History:

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1948 James Baldwin left the United States on a one-way plane ticket to Paris.

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Bonus Poem:

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead, Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.

Take up your quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.

By Colonel John McCrae

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…this is another poem dad knew by heart…Skip

In Memory-

Haiku for a Soldier

Dad and his old flag-

Straight, shoulders back, saluting,

Alone, in the dawn.

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