Tag: edna st. vincent millay

• Peeko’s Backpack?

  

  …A poetry backpack for my cat Peeko whom I am currently schooling in subjects of his choice, but no, I didn’t get it. 😊 💞📚😊🐱Put in an Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry volume: her lighter and more silly sarcastic rhymes and sonnets, a William Shakespeare play, Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, and any metered […]

  12/02/2022 9:54 pm

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• ‘Victorians’ Learning, Peeko’s Window Throne, and Calming Things

  

  *reading from a poem video now included* My cat Peeko was very impressed with the cover of this book Victorians as I learn a little with historical research, and I think I know which topic I’ll look for next, but I will browse the books next in person. (I’m in the ’collecting and gathering’ stage […]

  06/30/2022 9:36 am

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• An Intoxicating Book, A Bird Tries to Break into My Window, and More Recent Life Stories

  

  this flower was scented like strawberry and sugarcane 📰📻📚🌸 Intoxicated by A Book and Some Flowers I’d found a book recently called The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, and I noticed before I read the book that it was scented so beautifully like the beach by the sea and a sweetly potent suntan fragrance…I breathed […]

  06/08/2022 7:08 am

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• A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show

  

  I found this bookmark in a library book I’d taken out and read yesterday, a slim blue copy of literary insight with a little biography of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. From that book, these lines of a poem by Edna I’d not heard of spoke to me most poignantly: The stone the angel rolled […]

  05/17/2022 7:57 pm

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• A New Pansy Flower, Creative Days, and a Pair of Literary Salon Tuesdays

  

  April 27, 2022 This purple and yellow pansy flower on my balcony was born just today, and I kissed it gently this morning when I woke and saw it there…😘 and again this afternoon. Welcome to the world. 😊💕🍃 And this ‘Birds’ print chair made me smile when I saw it at the furniture store […]

  04/27/2022 7:15 pm

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• A Mid-Literary Salon Mystery and then the Cats Close This Post

  

  photo by me taken at the Fine Arts Museum, Boston. I liked this porcelain tea set out of the ceramic pottery. No, I cannot afford to buy it! At the Tuesday literary salon hosted at my home often we’ve enjoyed a segment of ”silent reading.” I’d imaginatively considered for fun if the salon host, May […]

  03/31/2022 8:08 am

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• Birthdays, Birthdays!, A Literary Salon Day, and ‘The Marching In’

  

  I awoke to the very lightest touch of blush in the dawn sky; it was seen only by looking more closely. It is Tuesday night and in recent weeks there has been lots of fun with paintings or pictures, a free sketch one night in my blank sketchbook from imagination, and painting from my imagination […]

  03/01/2022 8:33 pm

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• “A Sonnet Flowing Upon A Lake”

  

  my own photo, local garden in massachusetts, september The sonnet I wrote I’ve been telling you about was just published on Lothlorien Poetry Journal today! Here it is: “A Sonnet Flowing Upon A Lake.” and listen to me read this traditional sonnet: —Jade

  02/25/2022 6:14 pm

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• Happy Birthday, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 130 yrs!

  

  Here’s a poem Edna St. Vincent Millay (b. 1892) wrote…from her book Collected Poems called “To Elinor Wylie.” It’s a series poem containing sections (six), full of sonnet and one in the middle. I read it aloud in the morning fog today on Edna’s birthday Feb. 22, 130 yrs earth. This sky of rose was […]

  02/22/2022 12:15 pm

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• Pure Fun, New Moon, Writing Notebook

  

  Last night Monday…Peeko sitting in my chair with such pride. And he might show up at your job as your new Project Manager, you never know. Last week I could sum up with the line, Reason for Exhaustion: Writing sonnets all day. One Shakespearean. One Petrarchan: complex rhyme scheme sent me crashing by 4 pm. […]

  02/01/2022 2:24 pm

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• A Moon So Near

  

  Before dawn, the moon so close to my face and near to my gaze; I closed my eyes and slept some more, smiling within. This morning… ‘Rumi’ black tea with a splash of almond milk in a teacup my Grandma gave me and Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a gift I so welcomed […]

  01/27/2022 7:24 am

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• My Vacation with a Book, a Cup, and Plum Village

  

  I am on vacation at home. After cleaning and vacuuming and hanging up the new laundry out of the dryer, I continued mindfulness practices on the Plum Village app this afternoon, a community I’d found years ago whose meditations and teachings I’ve found so clear and beautifully expressed and a very enjoyable app. Some of […]

  01/21/2022 6:01 pm

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• An Accidental Scene and a Time of Reading

  It might not be gold; it might be silver, or pink, or green; it might expand before it goes; it might just happen to match you…or your blog. 😊🌸🍃🙃 [I deleted this post thinking the scene too grim with corn husk dolls fallen on the floor, but I’ve lightened since then of my own blog […]

  01/15/2022 7:42 pm

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• Hear Edna St. Vincent Millay Read Her Own Poetry

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay in her private library upstairs at Steepletop, c. 1935 I didn’t even realize I could do that, until now! It was so incredible to suddenly hear Edna St. Vincent Millay reading her words aloud, a poet I’ve read and written of often, and I don’t even remember how I got to […]

  12/29/2021 10:17 pm

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• A Rightfully Edna’s Moon Celebration

  

  This blog, Blush of Dawn’s ”original re-start up poet,” Edna St. Vincent Millay, Maine, New England-born author, b. Feb. 22, 1892 celebrates a Pisces moon today! (And I, too share this remembered moon.) 🌜 Just in time as the moon will soon move to Aries, I will share a favorite poem of hers from ones […]

  11/14/2021 1:15 pm

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• 7!

  

  a recent photo luxuriously flaunting his longness… Peeko knew it was his birthday today as soon as dawn’s waking, he ran! into the bedroom (instead of walking) as I was awakening and looked up at me with great attention and excitement, and with a hint of baby sweetness, and then he leapt onto the new […]

  11/08/2021 7:03 pm

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• Peeko’s Own Post on His Moon

  

  Peeko has a moon of his own in Scorpio, and he may also know it. He prefers to represent himself by himself, yet I will tell the back story. A package note implementation of policy for residents was in my email the other day in which I found amusing this politely toned warning (and the […]

  10/09/2021 9:31 am

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• In 2021, I Just Happened to Find a Dance to Take Us into 1921

  

  Grandma Shirley knew about this free dance gathering with a band, including especially good Swing music, and as she’d practiced ballroom and line dancing before and I hadn’t, I asked her if she wanted to dance to this song. I don’t have dance lesson experience or knew the dances they were doing but it wasn’t […]

  08/30/2021 10:58 am

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• You May Now Have a Strawberry and Hand-Picked Poetry

  

  6:32 pm: Tuesday’s note actually appears There it is, the strawberry I’d offered you that is now ripe and ready to eat; the plants are safely secured, not swinging in a possible storm, and it happens to have two other surprise strawberries with it to ripen later—Here, enjoy it! And this is my review I’d […]

  08/24/2021 6:32 pm

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• The Queen’s Full Moon…From a Fairy of the East Coast to Bring Some Fun When a Storm’s A’Coming

  

  August 22, 2022 Science Experiment Conclusion: My hypothesis was wrong; it actually is harder to hold a strength pose while someone’s yelling obscene insults, even if it’s just Nicki Minaj artistically in a song. (Glad for the wall 😊)But I can still practice seated poses and relaxation in the meanwhile, ‘tho other songs of hers […]

  08/22/2021 11:37 am

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• An Unexpected August Adventure, A Fairy Might’ve Just Wandered In

  

  Aug. 4, ‘21 This is a very rich true story and no more length will be added to the blog for a little while. I took the bus late afternoon today to have my eyebrows threaded and on the way I noticed the open door of a small performing arts theater I hadn’t remembered seeing […]

  08/05/2021 6:53 am

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• ‘…What Should I Be?’

  

  Upon awakening this morning I worked on my first ghazal poem awhile yesterday in the late afternoon and into the night just before bed. The traditional ghazal form contains the same word at the end of each last line of the couplets and a word that rhymes with that end word is placed before it. […]

  08/04/2021 9:05 am

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• Blush and Plenty of It

  

  The sky was azure blue when I woke and I said good morning. I sometimes practice saying ‘May’, with emphasis on the y accent for fun as I can spell a word now in a new language, her name: مي. She painted the sky just then with plenty of blush (I know in heaven a […]

  08/03/2021 8:06 pm

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• The First Blush of Dawn

  

  I woke and opened my eyes to see this blush of dawn today and smiled warmly. And then the sun and sky through the pines before early morning tea. I started writing notes on posts to come early last week sometimes related to the current moon sign for some added interest. I’d also picked up […]

  07/30/2021 10:40 am

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• A Day of Rest I’d Finally Kept and Piano Music With Great Company

  

  Yesterday was a rest for me I actually kept, a solitary one that soon felt not so solitary. I thought of this musician Erik Satie I’d heard of many years ago and not at all since then. I liked his music better now and I loved this piano one of his, Gnossienne No. 7 and […]

  07/09/2021 1:17 pm

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• I Heard It

  

  I felt as if Edna might be saying, ‘All this talk of May Ziadeh, and what about me?’ And I forgot about my morning petition until I heard the rain fall and it was answered. I felt these were some good flowing moments to read a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay (an audio only […]

  06/04/2021 5:08 pm

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• My Cat Peeko And His Selections and Approvals in Social Settings

  

  Peeko says hi and good morning; it is now dawn and the time of sunrise behind such puffy clouds. He only seems to make this glamorous expression if I ask him if he’d like to take a photo for his best friend Gigi, a fellow Scorpio. If he winks at you, you are right above […]

  06/03/2021 9:21 am

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• A Line of Mine and Some Poems By Other Writers

  

  You might find an understanding, a silent one, that after awhile you find to not really be silent and that took the time to find the words to find you. *** Kin To Sorrow by Edna St. Vincent Millay Am I kin to Sorrow,  That so oft Falls the knocker of my door——  Neither loud […]

  05/26/2021 5:21 pm

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• Looking Into The Forest, Considering A Dream

  ~ I woke to the sky in its blue culmination and still early morning.  Last night, I dreamed of two poets, Eavan Boland, whose last book I’d read recently and had passed away last year and Edna St. Vincent Millay; although Edna was born much earlier than Eavan, Eavan was an older woman in the […]

  05/16/2021 3:20 pm

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• A Letter

  Edna St. Vincent Millay Dear Gladys, To add to the good impression this early reply must give, I will proceed at once to answer your questions, (which you have probably forgotten you ever asked.) In the first question, as you will perhaps perceive, are two unpardonable insults: “Couldn’t you write something decidedly immoral (!) and, provided […]

  05/12/2021 7:49 pm

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• She May Have Died Long Ago But We Can Still Collaborate

  (a photo from fall) This idea came to me. I love to read poems by authors of the past and of today and some may touch me with ideas like my own whether we lived in the same time or place or not. I thought it might be an illuminating, fun experience to read a […]

  05/02/2021 10:00 am

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• Reading Edna and Lines I’ve Remembered

  Reading a poem by Edna. I feel like I could’ve been born in the late 1800s and shared poetry in the 1920s with people like her. Keeping that essence alive as I continue writing in 2021, a hundred years later. Reading A Poem By Edna An interesting thought I had, which lines of poetry have […]

  03/22/2021 8:19 pm

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• Millay: A Little Glimpse Into The Life of a Poet

  It is enjoyable to me to read every once in awhile something biographical about a poet or author whose work I’ve enjoyed, such as this quote about the poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay: She won the Pulitzer in 1923, but when newspapers recounted her public readings, they more often focused on her outfits than her […]

  03/01/2021 5:52 pm

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• February Poets From Different Times

  I noticed my hair looked a kind of way after I put it up so I thought hm, an old fashioned look, I think some past poets wore their hair like this. And then I thought, “Maybe Edna, let me check.” She has some certain way of putting her hair up, but similar idea. Edna […]

  02/26/2021 10:25 pm

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• Poetry Reading of a Favorite Poet, "Modern Declaration"

  I have read the poem, “Modern Declaration” by Edna St. Vincent Millay today. I was happy to learn some months ago that she was born a few days after me (well, a century before in 1892) and so is a Pisces too, and had lived in New York and New England like me, order of […]

  02/14/2021 2:45 pm

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• An Afternoon With Edna

  Reading two poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay to the view through a sunlit window beside an antique chair. …in between loads of laundry and then afterwards the dryer broke. The poems made it nicer. By Edna St. Vincent Millay

  02/12/2021 5:29 pm

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• Peeko’s Poetry Pick

  I completely forgot about this post and picture I was planning to share.  I had never really read poetry to Peeko before. He’s heard me reading poems aloud that I was writing but that isn’t the same thing.  When I was finished reading Collected Lyrics, I thought it might be nice to read one out […]

  12/11/2020 8:22 pm

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