Plogging Away

From Philo Remington:

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!  This -- yes THIS -- is our 700th plog (poetry blog) post!

Way back in May 2013 we started plogging.  HERE is our first post:

Of course, our first post was just to say that plog posts would be coming soon -- so our  actual first post about a topic other than the fact that plog posts were coming soon was this one (HERE), about the invention of the TV test pattern (and more): 

Now six years later we have reached our 700th post -- and what is about? 

A return to TV test patterns?  The current global pandemic?  The failed presidency of Donald Trump?  Important issues facing society today -- like product placement in the movie industry -- or the need for more cat videos on the internet?  The latest in men's fashions (spoiler alert:  leg warmers for men)?

No.  It's about the man himself, Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).

At a young age, Dickinson started writing daily entries and poetry in journals.  He'd stitch the papers together in bound sets that he would call "journicles."

When Dickinson recorded his 700th journal entry, he wrote his poem, "After 700 hundred posts" (below on the left).  His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem, "After a hundred years" (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
After 700 hundred posts
Everyone knows the Score
Comedy that’s enacted here
Hopefulness for More
 
Words triumphant range
Strangers troll or praise
At the vast Anthology 
Of posts sure to Amaze
 
Words of Some import
Recollect the way –
Life and times of Emmett Lee
Penned for you each day –

By Emily Dickinson:
 
After a hundred years
Nobody knows the Place
Agony that enacted there
Motionless as Peace

Weeds triumphant ranged
Strangers strolled and spelled
At the lone Orthography
Of the Elder Dead

Winds of Summer Fields
Recollect the way –
Instinct picking up the Key
Dropped by memory –

Pictured below:  Emmett Lee Dickinson's 700th post in one of his "journicles."