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A whole day nearer

Posted on September 30, 2013 by motleydragon

I have used this link in my blog before (Les Vieux. (July 6, 2012).  The very old lady I referred to in that post, my mother’s last survivng friend, has since died.  She decided she was too tired to go … Continue reading →

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Sonnet XXXIII

Posted on July 4, 2013 by motleydragon

Even violent changes in summer weather can be beautiful.  Enjoy! 1. Full many a glorious morning have I seen 2. Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, 3. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, 4. Gilding pale streams with … Continue reading →

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Mariana

Posted on June 11, 2013 by motleydragon

Mariana is an 1851 oil-on-wood painting by John Everett Millais. The image is based on the solitary Mariana from William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, written between 1601 and 1606. In the play, Mariana was to be married, but was rejected … Continue reading →

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The Second Coming

Posted on April 16, 2013 by motleydragon

I am not sure that I understand or agree with the metaphorical and metaphysical interpretations of the second stanza. But when I heard about the tragedy in Boston yesterday, I thought first of Yeats’ description of anarchy. “The centre cannot … Continue reading →

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The Song of the Ski

Posted on February 7, 2013 by motleydragon

THE SONG OF THE SKI   Wilson MacDonald, Canadian poet 1880 -1967   Norse am I when the first snow falls; Norse am I till the ice departs. The fare for which my spirit calls Is blood from a hundred … Continue reading →

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Robert Frost

Posted on January 29, 2013 by motleydragon

Robert Frost died fifty years ago today. One of my favourite poems is this, Fire and Ice, published in 1920, and inspired from a passage in Dante’s inferno and a conversation he had with a scientist.  It discusses the end … Continue reading →

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The Last Refuge

Posted on January 28, 2013 by motleydragon

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.  Oscar Wilde Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.  Mark Twain To-day is a “snow day” and all schools are closed. Well, not so much … Continue reading →

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High Flight

Posted on January 27, 2013 by motleydragon

Tomorrow is a sad anniversary!  What do you remember about hearing the news and your reactions?  The tragic loss undermined my trust in progress and technology.  Optimism was replaced by doubt… even the bravest and most brilliant sometimes fail. Here … Continue reading →

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To a Louse… again

Posted on January 25, 2013 by motleydragon

To a Louse Happy Burns Day! Do you have a favourite poem by Robert Burns?  Here is mine.  To a Louse  (1786) It reminds of boring moments at church when  some distraction would suddenly take me into a stream of conscious … Continue reading →

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Auld Lang Syne

Posted on January 25, 2013 by motleydragon

It’s Burn’s Day… the day Scots and lovers of all things Scottish toast  the birth of their beloved poet with traditional feasts of haggis and many toasts of Scotch. Here is Auld Lang Syne performed by the Royal Scots Dragoon … Continue reading →

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