This entry marks the 100th post to our plog (poetry blog), so we thought we would share a poem that Emmett Lee Dickinson published in the late 1800s to celebrate the 100th post in his friend's Antoinette Meme Webb's log in The New York Times. Antoinette Meme, later Antoinette Meme Webb, invented what is known today as the "Meme." Information about the first Meme is HERE. |
Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) was a life-long friend of Webb's, and he wrote a poem, "After a hundred posts" (below on the left), to mark the occasion of her 100th post in her column. Dickinson's poem later inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "After a hundred years" (below on the right).
By Emmett Lee Dickinson: After a hundred posts Everyone knows the Place Parody that enacted here Edgy as a Crease Words triumphant range Strangers skim and scan All the known Orthography Of the Master Hand Works on Sundry Fields Intersect each day – Mimicking reality Dosed with drollery – | 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 – |
Below on the left: Antoinette Meme Webb Below on the right: The New York Times' publisher Vicon Webb.