A flying rat perched up in a tree
successful though these birds may be
the farmer hoping for good yields
is often thwarted in his fields
when ripened crops or freshly sown
are shorn by these as if new mown
Dies Natalis
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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Ronovan writes #Haiku weekly prompt #479
If the lights go out
then it might just be the trip
a shot in the dark
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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #328 #Can you remember?
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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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #252 #Unrequited love
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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Evensong
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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Ronovan writes #Haiku poetry prompt #478
Top down and cruisin’
in my little red corvette
American dreams
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Samiscribbles weekend writing prompt #327
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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Designus adsimulaticius factorem
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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Literati inclytus
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.
When the pen takes control. 