Christmas – Clattery MacHinery on Poetry

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Treason

It’s beginning to look a lot like treason Everywhere you go; Consider the CIA views on election day; The e-mail hacks were Russian we now know. It’s beginning to look a lot like treason; Trump owes Russia more Than he pays on his income tax, the robbers from Goldman Sachs At the White House door.…

December 16, 2016

. . . and don’t forget these Christmas poems

Anonymous At the Last The stream is calmest when it nears the tide, And flowers are sweetest at eventide, The birds most musical at close of day, The saints divinest when they…

December 21, 2008

The Long-Awaited, Unabating, Top 30 All-Time Greatest Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

_____ Below is a countdown of the top 30 poems written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872, and died there in 1906. The poems included here are very enjoyable and speak very well to the world, some through dialect. They show Dunbar to be unique, important, and universal by…

June 20, 2007

"’Twas the Night Before Christmas," illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith

pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) – – – written, very likely, by either Henry Livingston, Jr. (1748-1828) or Clement Clark Moore (1779-1863) originally titled “A Visit from St. Nicholas” now popularly…

December 24, 2006

Christmastime at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) Aftermath When the summer fields are mown, When the birds are fledged and flown, And the dry leaves strew the path; With the falling of the snow, With the cawing of…

December 21, 2006