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Dies natalis
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Dies Natalis
American authors worthy of note in our list of birthdays
24-9-1896 F Scott Fitzgerald, novelist and short story writer who gained early success with his autobiographical novel, “This Side of Paradise,”
One year later on 25-9-1897 William Faulkner, winner of the 1949 Nobel prize for Literature.
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Dies natalis
On this day
Born 15-9-1890, Agatha Christie, highly successful crime writer, creator of both Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, he of the twirling moustache and the diminutive spinster Miss Jane Marple, both of whom frequently portrayed on film and T.V.
Also, in 1789, James Fenimore Cooper, American author, probably best remembered for, “The last of the Mohicans.”
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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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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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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #242 #Understatement
Whilst out in the forest amongst fallen leaves
you will often look down and see one of these
whether mushroom or toadstool you need to be sure
for if you’re not certain you need to take care
for though they are nice to take home for a meal
eating the wrong one could make you unwell
Filed under Self compositions
Micro seasons
Useless now, her wings
forgotten like the sunlight
a Queen in the dark
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Ronovan writes #Haiku weekly prompt #463
Encased in it’s shell
the infant brain may still grow
expanding the mind
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Sammiscribbles weekend writing prompt #289 #Last of the few
This week it was sad to see
died Johnny Johnson MBE
on his medal his name engraved
for those lives his bravery saved.
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Ronovan writes Decima poetry prompt #94 #Commitment
Julian sat in her stone cell
from behind a window of glass
she could watch as they performed mass
while confined in this living hell,
tickets to see her, priests would sell,
in the mid fourteenth century
an anchoress she chose to be
while all through those long lonely years
she recorded her thoughts and fears
so that all, her passion might see.
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When the pen takes control. 