“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how
infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express
and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty
of the world! the paragon of animals! ”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express
and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty
of the world! the paragon of animals! ”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man!
Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself
in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . .
inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which
is fraught with more misery than ages of that
which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”
Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself
in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . .
inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which
is fraught with more misery than ages of that
which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important
than any established style or system.”
― Bruce Lee
than any established style or system.”
― Bruce Lee
Midweek Motif ~ A Man's Day
International Men's Day occurs on November 19th, but I didn't know that when I planned this prompt. You can read about it HERE or on Wikipedia. I chose this motif because I want so much to read a loving phenomenal man poem. And given so much news lately about men victimizing women, I thought we might foreground men who haven't committed crimes against women.
Your Challenge: Let your poem show how a specific man is special. Choose anyone you want--famous or not, living or dead.
Morte d'Arthur
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
So all day long the noise of battle roll'd
Among the mountains by the winter sea;
Until King Arthur's table, man by man,
Had fallen in Lyonnesse about their Lord,
King Arthur: then, because his wound was deep,
The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him,
Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights,
And bore him to a chapel nigh the field,
A broken chancel with a broken cross,
That stood on a dark strait of barren land.
On one side lay the ocean, and on one
Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
. . . .
(Read the rest HERE at the Poetry Foundation.)
So all day long the noise of battle roll'd
Among the mountains by the winter sea;
Until King Arthur's table, man by man,
Had fallen in Lyonnesse about their Lord,
King Arthur: then, because his wound was deep,
The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him,
Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights,
And bore him to a chapel nigh the field,
A broken chancel with a broken cross,
That stood on a dark strait of barren land.
On one side lay the ocean, and on one
Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
. . . .
(Read the rest HERE at the Poetry Foundation.)
The Raggedy Man
O the Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa;
An' he's the goodest man ever you saw!
He comes to our house every day,
An' waters the horses, an' feeds 'em hay;
An' he opens the shed—an' we all ist laugh
When he drives out our little old wobble-ly calf;
An' nen—ef our hired girl says he can—
He milks the cow fer 'Lizabuth Ann.—
Ain't he a' awful good Raggedy Man?
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!
O the Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa;
An' he's the goodest man ever you saw!
He comes to our house every day,
An' waters the horses, an' feeds 'em hay;
An' he opens the shed—an' we all ist laugh
When he drives out our little old wobble-ly calf;
An' nen—ef our hired girl says he can—
He milks the cow fer 'Lizabuth Ann.—
Ain't he a' awful good Raggedy Man?
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!
. . . .
(Read the rest HERE at the Poetry Foundation)
. . . .
(Read the rest HERE at the Poetry Foundation)
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(Our next Midweek Motif is the Sun. Yup! our Star.)
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