500 & Counting

When Melon Husk purchased Twitter and allowed for the proliferation of misinformation and hate speech, I deleted my account and joined Counter Social -- and soon after joining I began posting daily info, poems and trivia and about Emily Dickinson and her poetry using the hashtag #DickinsonDaily.

Today marked my 500th entry, and here's what I posted: 

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!  May we all chortle in joy as this is my 500th #DickinsonDaily post!  And how to celebrate?

I figured I’d go galumphing back to when my words went snicker-snack, back when the borogoves were all mimsy and the mome raths outgrabe.

Okay – enough of the jabberwocky-talkie and back to Dickinson.  I thought I’d post two bits of info from my earliest posts.

First, my initial post asked something like, “Do you know how Emily Dickinson referred to birds?”  And the answer:  “Nature’s little poets.”

Then this info might have been the second post – I mentioned why Dickinson is referred to as “the Belle of Amherst.”

In a letter from 1845 to her friend Abiah Root (Dickinson was 14 years old), the poet wrote, “I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. But away with my nonsense.” 

The complete letter is HERE.

Finally, to wrap up this 500th post, I thought I would share two poems:  Poem #500 from Johnson’s 1955 compilation of “complete poems,” “Within my Garden, rides a bird,” and poem #500 from Franklin’s 1998 edition of “complete poems,” “Not ‘Revelation’ – ‘tis – that waits.”

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