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From Nature Poetry for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter 30 DECEMBER A Winter Song VERSES 1-6, UNFINISHED It is early morning within this room; without, Dark and damp; without and within, stillness Waiting for day: not a sound but a listening air. Yellow jasmine, delicate on stiff branches Stands in a Tuscan pot to delight the eye In spare December's patient nakedness. Suddenly, softly, as if at a breath breathed On the pale wall, a magical apparition, The shadow of the jasmine, branch and bloom! It was not there, it is there, in a perfect image; And all is changed. It is like a memory lost Returning without a reason into the mind; And it seems to me that the beauty of the shadow Is more beautiful than the flower; a strange beauty, Pencilled and silently deepening to distinctness. As a memory stealing out of the mind's slumber, A memory floating up from a dark water, Can be more beautiful than the thing remembered. Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
December 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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A Winter Bluejay Sara Teasdale Crisply the bright snow whispered, Crunching beneath our feet; Behind us as we walked along the parkway, Our shadows danced, Fantastic shapes in vivid blue. Across the lake the skaters Flew to and fro, With sharp turns weaving A frail invisible net. In ecstasy the earth Drank the silver sunlight; In ecstasy the skaters Drank the wine of speed; In ecstasy we laughed Drinking the wine of love. Had not the music of our joy Sounded its highest note? But no, For suddenly, with lifted eyes you said, "Oh look!" There, on the black bough of a snow flecked maple, Fearless and gay as our love, A bluejay cocked his crest! Oh who can tell the range of joy Or set the bounds of beauty? Appears in A Poem for Every Winter Day, edited by Allie Esiri
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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From Nature Poetry for Every Night of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter Winter Branches by Nan Shepherd Against the smoke-browned wall The browner winter branches Stand out hardly at all; They do not tremble in the misty evening. But under the open sky Where the stars in clear and tranquil Sufficiency go by, They leap up quivering into the vastness Like flame, like the thought of man Leaping from earth's nurture, Through span on alien span, To tremble around the stars its kindred.
December 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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December 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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'A fine Christmas gift indeed, this
obscure migration [...]' 🎁
Conches on Christmas
Diluvian, draggled and derelict posse, this barnacled pod so pales next to everything we hear of red tides and pilot whales that a word like “drama” makes me sound remiss except that there was a kind ...
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December 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Thursday #morningread
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
December 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Happy Winter Solstice!
From Winter: Folio Anthology
December 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Saturday #morningread
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from Birds: An Anthology.
December 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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#JohnClare
December 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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From Birds: An Anthology. Bodleian
December 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Wednesday #morningread
From Birds: An Anthology. Bodleian.
December 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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From Nature Poetry for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter
December 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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From Birds: Anthology. Bodleian.
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Saturday #morningread
From Nature Poetry for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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From Nature Poetry for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter
December 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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From Winter: A Folio Anthology
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Wednesday #morningread
From The Poetry of Birds, ed. Simon Armitage and Tim Dee
December 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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From The Poetry of Birds, ed. Simin Armitage and Tim Dee
December 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Monday #morningread
Have a healthy and happy week!
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From Birds: An Anthology, ed. Jaqueline Mitchell
December 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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The Language of Birds
From The Poetry of Birds, ed. Simon Armitage and Tim Dee
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Saturday #morningread
The birds are there outside my window. Have a restful weekend and hug a tree!
From A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM