Born this day
11-9-1700 James Thompson Scottish poet who penned, “Rule Britannia,” also in 1885 D.H. Lawrence, writer on human sexuality and social conditions in most notably, “Sons and lovers and Lady Chatterley’s lover,“ a book banned when it first appeared.
12-9-1907 Louis MacNiece, Irish poet and broadcaster, a member of the Oxford group which included Auden, Day Lewis and Spender.
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If the lights go out
then it might just be the trip
a shot in the dark
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Between nineteen sixty and about eighty three
when the record store was the place to be
Hallmark in blue was the label sought
as to save a bit of cash their records bought
for instead of buying each band’s latest hit
they were there all together on one disc
about twenty songs on each were found
and you sang along as it went round
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Trying to do everything right
I took my fiancé up for a flight
I asked her the question down on one knee
and the ungrateful cow said to me
No but the pilot’s a bit of alright
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So finely balanced,
the setting sun,
the robin’s song,
streaks and breast
locked in combat
in dark shadows
the neon lights eclipse
their bold display
so familiar
so ignored
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Top down and cruisin’
in my little red corvette
American dreams
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Sadly nowadays I find that it seems
in the many journals that I read
their writers in trying to seem eloquent
are prone to sound magniloquent
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On this day
J.R.R. Tolkien, Professor of Anglo-Saxon, compiler of languages, creator of worlds, scholar and author of the books against which the majority of later fantasy novels are compared, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion among others, died on 2nd. September 1973 aged 81.
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On this day
The death in 1688 of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress. Also in 1867, Charles Baudelaire in poverty, essayist, translator and influential poet, at the age of 46.
Everybody laughed at me
when I said the wood store is the place to be
but they saw that you could do a lot
with all those pallets broken or not
with imagination and joinery
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