W.H. Auden - Marginalia IV

[highlyeccentric]

Animal femurs
ascribed to saints who never
existed, are still

more holy than portraits
of conquerors who,
unfortunately, did.

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Aaaaand that concludes the poem-a-day 2013 project folks. Going out with a whimper and irregular posting in the last week of the year, due to the vagaries of travel, but such is life. Including this post, I managed an average of 0.6 poems per day or 4.9 poems per week throughout the year.

Comments

[majoline]

*applause!* Thank you so much for doing this; it was fun to watch.

[highlyeccentric]

You might want to try tree, she's set out to post poetry this year!

[majoline]

Oh sweet, I hadn't even noticed that! Thanks for the point.

[realpestilence]

I love poetry-this is a neat idea, a poem-a-day. I post poems sometimes, as I find them, or in response to holidays or other occasions. Right now, my books are disorganized, so I can't find my latest poetry collection (damn it!)-there were things I wanted to share from it.

A friend made this icon for me, lines from a poem I liked. :D