Sun Spots

Last week, in response to the Super Blue Moon, I explored Dickinson's poems with both the words “blue” & “moon” – there were two -- & it turned out that both poems also used the word “privilege.”  Info HERE.

Now I’ve transitioned from the “moon” to the “sun” (starting yesterday, check HERE), & it turns out that none of Dickinson’s 165-plus poems about the sun uses the word “privilege”; however, one does use the word “blue,” “A wild Blue sky abreast of Winds.”

Interestingly, among all the works of Dickinson, there is also ONE poem with the words “blue” and “sunrise” (“Bring me the sunset in a cup”), and there is ONE poem with the words “blue” and “sunset” (“The Sunrise runs for both”).

More about Dickinson’s poems of the sun tomorrow.

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For a couple of days, I’ve been discussing some of Dickinson’s poems that use the word “sun,” but there are at least 165 of them – plus more when you include “sunny,” “sunrise,” and “sunset” – so I could go on for quite some time if I discussed each and every one.

With that being said, I found this site which lists twelve of “Dickinson’s Sun Poems”  (HERE) – and this list definitely includes some I might include if I were to compile my “Top 12” list of “sun” poems (in fact, I’ve already written about “The Sun just touched the morning,” HERE).

Another of the twelve here is definitely a favorite of mine, and it reminds me of something my father-in-law used to say, so I’ll fill you in on that tomorrow.

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OMG – you’re not going to believe this!  LOL.  I stumbled across something really wacky this morning – it really made me laugh.  Wait till you hear (and I mean “wait till you hear” literally).

Recently I’ve been writing about some of Dickinson’s 165-plus poems where she mentions the word “sun.”

Yesterday I provided a link from PoemHunter.com which listed 12 of her “sun poems,” and it did include some of my favorites.  Perhaps one day I’ll sit and compile my own “Top Twelve” list of Dickinson’s “sun poems,” and like the PoemHunter list, it will include “The Sun just touched the morning” (which I wrote about the other day) and “When I have seen the Sun emerge.”

In the poem, Dickinson really captures the spirit of greeting the excitement of a new day – akin to all the CoSoNauts (re: Counter Social -- where this post was first published) who greet our community with wishes for a “Good Morning.”  It always reminds me too of my father-in-law who would always offer up a “Good morning” and add, “another day in which to excel!” 

Okay, so here’s the wacky bit I alluded to at the start of this post.

I was looking over the twelve poems on PoemHunters list, and ultimately I clicked on “Read poem” for number 11 on the list (the very poem I’ve mentioned here this morning). That took me to a page with just that particular poem, and I saw that the page included a video of the poem, and I thought to myself, “How nice – they have videos of someone reading all of the poems on their list” – so I listened to this one.

I was disappointed immediately when I heard a computerized voice reciting the poem – but then…

OMG, I could not believe what I heard!  I’m literally sitting here laughing about it.  Listen in – you’ll know immediately what I”m talking about!  

LOL – let me know what you think!

The page for the poem is HERE.