2022-04-24 National Skipping Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XVII (1937)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The person has a mould. But not
Its animal. The angelic ones
Speak of the soul, the mind. It is
An animal. The blue guitar —
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2022-04-24 National Pigs in a Blanket Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XVI (1937)】
The earth is not earth but a stone,
Not the mother that held men as they fell
But stone, but like a stone, no: not
The mother, but an oppressor, but li
2022-04-23 National Picnic Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XV (1937)】
Is this picture of Picasso's, this "hoard
Of destructions", a picture of ourselves,
Now, an image of our society?
Do I sit, deformed, a naked egg
2022-04-13 National Scrabble Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XIV (1937)】
First one beam, then another, then
A thousand are radiant in the sky.
Each is both star and orb; and day
Is the riches of their atmo
2022-04-13 Holy Wednesday
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XIII (1937)】
The pale intrusions into blue
Are corrupting pallors… ay di mi,
Blue buds or pitchy blooms. Be content—
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2022-04-13 International Day of Pink
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XII (1937)】
Tom-tom, c'est moi. The blue guitar
And I are one. The orchestra
Fills the high hall with shuffling
2022-04-08 National All Is Ours Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XI (1937)】
Slowly the ivy on the stones
Becomes the stones. Women become
The cities, children become the fields
And men in waves become the sea.
2022-04-08 International Feng Shui Awareness Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·X (1937)】
Raise reddest columns. Toll a bell
And clap the hollows full of tin.
Throw papers in the streets, the wills
Of the dead, majestic in their sea
2022-04-02 International Children's Book Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·IX (1937)】
And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
2022-04-02 International Fact-Checking Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·VIII (1937)】
The vivid, florid, turgid sky,
The drenching thunder rolling by,
The morning deluged still by night,
The clouds tumultuou