It’s National Poetry Day, so …

16-bit Intel 8088 chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.

Charles Bukowski

Currently reading: Percy Bysshe Shelley – Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen 📚

The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born On This Day in 1792 - The Later Romantics

Currently reading: Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014 by Clive James 📚

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar 📚

Spring

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St Vincent Millay is one of my favourite poets - just noticed and appreciated this article, published on the anniversary of her birth, February 22nd 1892: Edna St Vincent Millay’s poetry has been eclipsed by her personal life – let’s change that 📚

Grave of John Keats in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome

Keats-Shelley House

The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792 - The Later Romantics

How sweet it is to sit and read the tales
Of mightiest poets and to hear the while
Sweet music, which when the attention fails
Fill the dim pause —

Patrick Jones #poetry at Tramshed Cardiff @TramshedCF @heretic101 #Hipstamatic https://t.co/N5WIYgO7HQ

Edna St.Vincent Millay #poetry   https://t.co/q8JHFlTJQJ

RT @BBCInOurTime: Lord Byron, poet, was born #OnThisDay 1788 https://t.co/Vophborhnx