Featured Poems of the Week:
Week of 1/13/19
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By Emily Dickinson
There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are – None may teach it – Any – ‘Tis the Seal Despair – An imperial affliction Sent us of the Air – When it comes, the Landscape listens – Shadows – hold their breath – When it goes, ‘tis like the Distance On the look of Death – |
By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
There’s a certain Slant of Art On Museum Walls – In Parlors – or Foyers – Or sloping in Great Halls – That peeves the Eye of Detail – A Point of View with Intolerable imbalance – Like stripes on plaid – Unheavenly Angle – like the bubble Of the Carpenter’s Level Descending to a lower plane – Diagonality – of the Devil – None may reach it – Any – ‘Tis the Tilt of Despair – Disconcerting Declivity Soliciting Repair – When it dips, the Landscape lists – And I am inclined – bent – On righting the pitched frame’s Look of Descent – |
A few notes from Jarvis MacKinnon III:
The birthday of Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) is October 12th. That makes him a Libran under the sign of the scales -- and Dickinson was a Libran through and through. He needed everything balanced, and a crooked painting hanging on a wall drove him mad! His poem, "There's a certain Slant of Art," one of our Featured Poems of the Week, inspired his third cousin Emily to pen her poem "There's a certain Slant of light," our other featured poem. Emily's poem, of course, was about winter afternoons that oppress "like the heft of Cathedral Tunes" -- and since much of the country is feeling the heft of a winter storm, we thought we would feature the poem this week.
Stay warm!
The birthday of Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) is October 12th. That makes him a Libran under the sign of the scales -- and Dickinson was a Libran through and through. He needed everything balanced, and a crooked painting hanging on a wall drove him mad! His poem, "There's a certain Slant of Art," one of our Featured Poems of the Week, inspired his third cousin Emily to pen her poem "There's a certain Slant of light," our other featured poem. Emily's poem, of course, was about winter afternoons that oppress "like the heft of Cathedral Tunes" -- and since much of the country is feeling the heft of a winter storm, we thought we would feature the poem this week.
Stay warm!
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Last Week's Featured Poems of the Week:
Week of 1/6/19
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By Emily Dickinson:
To own a Susan of my own Is of itself a Bliss -- Whatever Realm I forfeit, Lord, Continue me in this! |
By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
To own the Shutdown of his own Is of itself a Mess – Whatever Sense he maintains, Lord, Is anybody’s guess! |
A Few Notes from Dorothy Dawe:
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The Trump Shutdown -- another fine mess you've gotten us into, Donny.
"I am proud to shut down the government," he said. "I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you (the Democrats) for it... I will take the mantle of shutting down. I’m going to shut it down." Of course, now he's flipping and flopping around like a dying fish on a pier as he tries to figure his way out of this mess. When will the government re-open? Who knows. But this shutdown is all Trump. He own's it. Therefore, we've posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "To own the Shutdown of his own" as one of our Featured Poems of the Week. Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "To own a Susan of my own," our other featured poem. |
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Previous Week's Featured Poems of the Week:
Week of 12/30/18
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By Emily Dickinson:
Unfulfilled to Observation – Incomplete – to Eye – But to Faith – a Revolution In Locality – Unto Us – the Suns extinguish – To our Opposite – New Horizons – they embellish – Fronting Us – with Night. |
By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
Unfulfilled to Observation – Incomplete – to Eye – Lost my Faith – in Resolutions That didn’t Gratify – Unto Me – my Goals extinguished – To the Opposite – Lost Horizons – I relinquished – Within a Day – I Quit! |
A Few Notes from Eudora Dickinson:
The idea of making New Year's resolutions was first introduced by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) on January 1, 1853. The notion of abandoning them was also pioneered by Dickinson -- on January 2, 1853. Therefore, we have posted Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "Unfulfilled to Observation" as one of our Featured Poems of the Week. His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem with the same opening line, our other featured poem.
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