2025-03-29 World Piano Day
【I Have Lived So Long With The Rhetoricians】
(1913-1915?)
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I have lived so long with the rhetoricians
That when I see a pine tree
Broken by lightning
Or hear a crapulous crow
In dead boughs,
2025-03-23 World Meteorological Day
【Headache (1913-1915?)】
The letters of the alphabet
Are representations of parts of the head.
Ears are q s
L s are the wrinkled skin between the eyes
In frowns.
2025-03-22 National Goof Off Day
【An Exercise for Professor X (1913-1915?)】
I see a camel in my mind.
I do not say to myself, in English,
"There is a camel."
I do not talk t
2025-03-15 National Brutus Day
【L'Essor Saccadé (1913-1915?)】
Swallows in the elderberry,
Fly to the steeple.
Then from one apple-tree
Fly to another.
2025-03-15 World Contact Day
【All Things Imagined Are Of Earth Compact… (1913-1915?)】
All things imagined are of earth compact,
Strange beast and bird, strange creatures all;
Strange minds of men, unwilling slaves to fact:
Struggli
2025-03-15 World Consumer Rights Day
【Phases·XI (1914)】
War has no haunt except the heart,
Which envy haunts, and hate, and fear,
And malice, and ambition, near
The haunt of love. Who shall impart,
&nbs
2025-03-15 Buzzards Day
【Phases·X (1914)】
Peace means long, delicious valleys,
In the mode of Claude Lorraine;
Rivers of jade,
In serpentines,
2025-03-15 World Speech Day
【Phases·IX (1914)】
Life, the hangman, never came,
Near our mysteries of flame.
When we marched across his towns,
2025-02-26 National Tell A Fairy Tale Day
【Phases·VIII (1914)】
What shall we say to the lovers of freedom,
Forming their states for new ears to come?
Say that the fighter is master of men.
Shall we, then, say to the lovers of freed
2025-03-02 Dr. Seuss Day
【Phases·VII (1914)】
The vaguest line of smoke,(a year ago),
Wavered in evening air, above the roof,
As if some Old Man of the Chimney, sick
Of summer and that unused hearth below,
&nb
2025-02-22 National Margarita Day
【Phases·VI (1914)】
[First Part Missing]
The crisp, sonorous epics
Mongered after every scene.
Sluggards must be quickened! Screen,
&
2025-02-22 World Thinking Day
【Phases·I (1914)】
"La justice sans force est contredite, parce
qu'il y a toujours des méchants; la force sans
La justics est accusée." Pascal
There was heaven,
Full of Raphael's costumes;
And earth,
2025-02-22 History of Natl Rec Sports and Fitness Day
【Home Again (1914)】
Back within the valley,
Down from the divide,
No more flaming clouds about,
O! the soft hillside,
2025-02-19 International Tug of War Day
【From a Junk (1914)】
A great fish plunges in the dark,
Its fins of rutted silver; sides,
Belabored with a foamy light;
And back, brilliant with scaly salt.
It glistens in the flapping wind,
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