CELEBRATION POEMS
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A Celebration
A middle-northern March, now as always-
gusts from the South broken against cold winds-
but from under, as if a slow hand lifted a tide,
it moves-not into April-into a second March,
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William Carlos Williams
Sunbeam
I pray to the sunbeam from the window -
It is pale, thin, straight.
Since morning I have been silent,
And my heart - is split.
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Anna Akhmatova
Metamorphoses: Book 06
Pallas, attending to the Muse's song,
Approv'd the just resentment of their wrong;
And thus reflects: While tamely I commend
Those who their injur'd deities defend,
.....
Ovid
Growltiger's Last Stand
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge;
In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large.
From Gravesend up to Oxford he pursued his evil aims,
Rejoicing in his title of “The Terror of the Thames.”
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T. S. Eliot
Celebration
Brilliant, this day â?? a young virtuoso of a day.
Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors,
deft hands. And every prodigy of green â??
whether it's ferns or lichens or needles
.....
Denise Levertov
The Legend Of The Falls (ii)
Note: An-pe-tu Sa-pa-Clouded Day-was the name of the Dakota mother who
committed suicide, as related in this legend, by plunging over the Falls
of St. Anthony. Schoolcraft calls her “Ampata Sapa.” Ampata
is not Dakota. There are several versions of this legend, all agreeing in
.....
Hanford Lennox Gordon
Matter For Gratitude
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanks
That Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-
That Thou hast parted from our lips the cup
And forced our neighbors' lips to drink it up.
.....
Ambrose Bierce
Theater
All of us - righteous and sinners,
Born in prison, raised at the altar,
All of us are funny actors
In the theater of the Creator.
.....
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
The Dear Old Flag
Oh! we love that dear old flag,
That our forefathers gave
Over one hundred years ago, boys,
They once stood under that dear flag,
.....
Julia Ann Moore
The Linden Avenue
A house of unimagined beauty
Is set in parkland, cool and dark;
Gates with an arch; then meadows, hillocks,
And oats and woods beyond the park.
.....
Boris Pasternak
Phaethon--attempted In Galliambic Measure
At the coming up of Phoebus the all-luminous charioteer,
Double-visaged stand the mountains in imperial multitudes,
And with shadows dappled men sing to him, Hail, O Beneficent!
For they shudder chill, the earth-vales, at his clouding, shudder to
.....
George Meredith
Heroic Stanzas
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His
Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver,
Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc.
Written After the Celebration of his Funeral
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John Dryden
Sancho Sanchez
Sancho Sanchez lay a--dying in the house of Mariquita,
For his life ebbed with the ebbing of the red wound in his side.
And he lay there as they left him when he came from the Corrida
In his gold embroidered jacket and his red cloak and his pride.
.....
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Independence Slavery
Sail from afar of my journey made.
What could be the sound my ear do hear?
This seems to be that of a glorious celebration,
Which needs no ear to be put on the wall.
.....
Olorode Samuel
Discovering January To December
January opened a link called February
In February we created a website called March
Inside march we developed a game for fools called April fool
In the game the winner celebrates May day.
.....
Samuel Oluwandara
'50 Year Celebration'
I shall unsparingly criticise your prestigious “50 Year Celebration.”
Let me ask a few thought-provoking questions:
How did you finance such a costly event?
Did the money come from the pockets of the tax payers?
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Marlon Pitter