A whole year we've been serious, earnest, tense
It's April, flist; you all know what that means, right? Poetry spam! \o/ One or two poems a day for the next 30 days in honour of National Poetry Month. :) (And I don't have any vacations during April this year, so you get the full 30 days. *cackles maniacally*)
To start us off, two silly poems because it is April Fools' Day.
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Small April sobbed,
"I'm going to cry!
Please give me a cloud
To wipe my eye!"
Then, "April fool!"
She laughed instead
And smiled a rainbow
Overhead!
~ "April Fool" by Eleanor Hammond
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Minerva, take your owl and get you hence.
Close fast your doors, all shops and banks and schools.
This is the great, the blessed Day of Fools!
A whole year we've been serious, earnest, tense;
Let's leap the traces--smash some prudent fence;
Away with books and brooms, all labor's tools;
Now, now, before our splendid ardor cools
Celebrate madly, spend our last ten cents!
Get out the car, or board the nearest trolley--
Wherever any whim suggests we'll go
And do the wildest silliest thing we know.
We'll laugh, play tricks, and rout black melancholy.
Hark--this is true--experience proves it so;
Not cap and bells but crowns, all crowns, are folly.
~ "April First" by Julia Boynton Green
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Both poems taken from The Days We Celebrate - Celebrations For Festivals edited by Robert Haven Schauffer.
And in other news, this afternoon I met with the person I'll be working for this summer (you know, at the National Air & Space Museum Archives [*is still awed/gleeful about the prospect*]). I, of course, got there super early, so I wandered round the museum a bit before checking in with security. I was sad to see they are putting a new exhibit in where the Rocketry & Space Flight exhibit used to be. That was my favourite exhibit (and also where I spent most of my geeky Thanksgiving visit), it was so cool with all the comparisons and contrasts between science fiction and reality. The new exhibit sounds interesting enough (I mean, space, duh), but I shall miss the science fiction stuff (unless they sneak it in somewhere else, I'll have to keep my eye out).
Anyway, the archivist I'll be working for is very nice and friendly and excited to have me. And I am very, very excited to be working there (in two months!). :D
To start us off, two silly poems because it is April Fools' Day.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Small April sobbed,
"I'm going to cry!
Please give me a cloud
To wipe my eye!"
Then, "April fool!"
She laughed instead
And smiled a rainbow
Overhead!
~ "April Fool" by Eleanor Hammond
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Minerva, take your owl and get you hence.
Close fast your doors, all shops and banks and schools.
This is the great, the blessed Day of Fools!
A whole year we've been serious, earnest, tense;
Let's leap the traces--smash some prudent fence;
Away with books and brooms, all labor's tools;
Now, now, before our splendid ardor cools
Celebrate madly, spend our last ten cents!
Get out the car, or board the nearest trolley--
Wherever any whim suggests we'll go
And do the wildest silliest thing we know.
We'll laugh, play tricks, and rout black melancholy.
Hark--this is true--experience proves it so;
Not cap and bells but crowns, all crowns, are folly.
~ "April First" by Julia Boynton Green
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Both poems taken from The Days We Celebrate - Celebrations For Festivals edited by Robert Haven Schauffer.
And in other news, this afternoon I met with the person I'll be working for this summer (you know, at the National Air & Space Museum Archives [*is still awed/gleeful about the prospect*]). I, of course, got there super early, so I wandered round the museum a bit before checking in with security. I was sad to see they are putting a new exhibit in where the Rocketry & Space Flight exhibit used to be. That was my favourite exhibit (and also where I spent most of my geeky Thanksgiving visit), it was so cool with all the comparisons and contrasts between science fiction and reality. The new exhibit sounds interesting enough (I mean, space, duh), but I shall miss the science fiction stuff (unless they sneak it in somewhere else, I'll have to keep my eye out).
Anyway, the archivist I'll be working for is very nice and friendly and excited to have me. And I am very, very excited to be working there (in two months!). :D