2021-10-20 World Statistics Day
【Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock (1915)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
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2021-10-14 World Standards Day
【Of Mere Being (1954)】
The palm at the end of the mind,
Beyond the last thought, rises
In the bronze decor,
A gold-feathered bird
Sings in the palm, with
2021-10-09 International Beer and Pizza Day
【The Soul of the Sunflower (1881)】
Sarah O. Jewett (1849—1909)
The warm sun kissed the earth
To consecrate thy birth,
And from his close embrace
Thy radiant face
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2021-10-07 National Diversity Day
【Valley Candle (1923)】
My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
Beams of the huge night converged upon it,
Until the wind blew.
The beams of the huge night
Converged upon its image,
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2021-10-05 National Be Nice Day
【Anecdote of the Jar (1919)】
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.