Poets United Midweek Motif ~ One Day in the Life of ...

“What day is it,?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.”                   
                               ― A.A. Milne

Midweek Motif ~ 

One Day in the Life of ...

. . . a person?  a place?  a thing?  

Make a poem.

“Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.” 
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening 

throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. 

This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that 

the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” 

― Mary Oliver

Richard Cory

BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

          . . . .   (Read the rest HERE at The Poetry Foundation)

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(Next week's Midweek Motif is Halloween or Celebrating the Dead.)

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Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Success

“If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?”

― Joe Namath

“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ”

― Jesse Owens

". . . hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

― Barack Obama,  Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012

Midweek Motif: Success

Consult with your experience about success and your muse, and come back with a new poem. 

I am inspired by three poems about success:  

(1) Success is counted sweetest (112)

          BY EMILY DICKINSON

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne'er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host

Who took the Flag today

Can tell the definition

So clear of victory

As he defeated – dying –

On whose forbidden ear

The distant strains of triumph

Burst agonized and clear!

(2)  Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson, and

(3)  Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

(Our next Midweek Motif will be Women's Achievements) 

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