XPost: alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.poetry
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 9:59:54 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 8:46:52 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 19:35:04 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 19:05:13 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
Penny's Poetry Blog's featured poem for February:
The Quiet Snow, by Raymond Knister
The quiet snow
Will splotch
Each in the row of cedars
With a fine
And patient hand;
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2013/02/quiet-snow-knister.html
This one resonates, as lad week we had our first snow in years here in
Columbus Georgia.
I'm glad I used it for the featured post. I was on the fence for a
while, wondering whether to make Knister's poem or "The Snow Storm" by
Emerson (which had a video). But Knister's is the much stronger poem, at
least to someone who grew up with modernist poetry like me.
We're in our two months of permanent ice and snow, from Christmas
through to the end of February. If the groundhog did come out yesterday,
he probably froze solid.
It is back to a Springtime feeling down here in the Deep South, or was
for the past couple of days.
I have to admit I prefer the warm weather.
I had a fascinating soncersation on X this morning. (Yes, I was able to
get back on and relink my old account.) One person posted a list of
great Canadian products that will be hit by the Trump tariffs, and they
were all sugary or starchy food: butter tarts, poutine, Tim Hortons
coffee and donuts, etc. To which I replied that the tariffs may help
with your country's obesity problems as well.
In reply to me, another person posted that obesity in America is worse
the farther South one travels. Which gave me a new: Canadians consume so
much sugary and fatty food because we live in such a cold climate, and
need it for energy. While in the American South, y'all don't need as
much of it and the excess tends to be converted to fat.
That looks obvious to me in hindsight, but it's something that I hadn't
thought of before.
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