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Good Wishes and Many Thanks to Our Veterans on Veterans Day
Laughing Stalk Humor Columns by Erik Deckers —
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The Moon gives you light And the bugles and the drums give you music, And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans My heart gives you love. — Walt Whitman --- Like this post? Leave a comment, Digg it, or Stumble it.1 day ago -
a certain number of leaves
Misadventures of the Monster Farmer-Librarian —
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I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches; Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself; But I wonderd how it ...2 days ago -
Bookmarks: a small town book tour, inappropriate books for kids, and Walt Whitman selling jeans
Quill & Quire —
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Bookish links from across the Web: Test your celebrity poet knowledge over at Details and guess which verses have been written by Michael Jackson, Mr. Spock, Jewel, or William Butler Yeats Battle of the sexes, poetry edition: Do women write “female” poetry? Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue tour ...2 days ago -
Walkin’ about Wallabout
Ephemeral New York —
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Wallabout is either a dressed-up name for the gritty area abutting the Brooklyn Navy Yard and sliced by the BQE. Or it’s a true neighborhood with a vibe distinct from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill to the north. Whatever your take, Wallabout is a stronghold of Brooklyn history that’s worth a look. The name ...3 days ago -
America The Betrayed – Walt Whitman: “Poet of the People” By Richard C Cook
Creative-i —
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If you want to get an idea of what America once was like, read the poems of Walt Whitman.Whitman was born on Long Island in 1819 and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. His family was poor, but even though he left school at the age of 11 he gave himself an education by reading and working in the printing shop of a newspaper ...5 days ago -
Poem: “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” By Walt Whitman [Vol. 2, #43]
The Englewood Review of Books —
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Walt Whitman 1819-1892 1 Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west–sun there half an hour high–I see you also face to face. Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me! On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, ...6 days ago -
Dirge for Two Veterans
Gordon Cheng's blog —
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The last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finishd Sabbath, On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking, Down a new-made double grave. Lo, the moon ascending, Up from the east the silvery round moon, Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon, Immense and silent moon. I see a ...6 days ago -
Walt Whitman - On the Beach at Night, Alone
Stupid and Contagious —
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by peterzz Walt Whitman - On the Beach at Night, Alone On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song, As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future. A vast similitude interlocks all, All spheres, ...1 week ago -
Links for 11.5.09: America is bread shoes, beer and Guitar Hero
the listenerd —
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* Twitter : One prediction about Twitter’s new list functionality – “Once it’s understood that you don’t have to be following someone to add them to a list people will begin to adjust who they are following to those they actually know and interact with moving news and site feeds, or celebs and joke ...1 week ago -
Answer
Heath's Vlog —
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It’s day 4 of NaVloPoMo and it’s also day 4 of the NaVloPoMo vlogging game , 30 vlogger 30 days. Or is it 30 days 30 vloggers. Or is it something else completely? Shrug. Anyway yesterday Dennis made a post, the day before that it was Rupert and the day before that it was Adrian . Each video builds on ...1 week ago -
The Dead Poets Society
Quazen —
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Cover of Dead Poets Society We all know the movie “The Dead Poets Society” The leader was a teacher at an all boys school who was played by Robin Williams. Robin Williams was so inspirational as this spirited teacher that we now have a founder of a real Dead Poets Society of America. Walter Shold founded the ...1 week ago -
tweeting Walt & other day topics
Al Filreis —
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Here s your link to the cartoon. Im fascinated of course by the constraint borne upon Whitmans cornucopian language. (Thanks for Kristina Baumli for alerting me to this.) To subscribe to "your daily Al," click here .1 week ago -
Walt Whitman: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world.
art predator —
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“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world.” ~ Walt WhitmanThat is exactly how I am feeling tonight here in the ancient walled city of Evora, about an hour east toward Spain from Lisbon. The wind is wild and the rain [...]1 week ago -
CHARLES PETERSON’S GENEROUS ART, 1942
Jazz Lives —
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The photographs Charles Peterson took offer magic windows into places and emotions we would otherwise never experience. Here’s what he captured on a truly magical afternoon in 1942, shared with us through the generosity of his son, Don. It’s a jam session – hardly unusual for Peterson — but this is no ...1 week ago -
Sir Christopher Lee, CBE, in a musical mood
Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog —
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He’s got an awe-inspiring 266 credits listed on his IMDb c.v. Nevertheless, finding good embeddable clips for Christopher Lee, one of the most beloved yet also underrated actors of the 20th and 21st centuries, hasn’t exactly been easy. Sad, considering how much enjoyment he’s given audiences, how many good ...1 week ago -
Walt Whitman’s Woods and his Poem "Miracles"
Mama Lisa's World Blog —
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We took a walk today in Walt Whitman’s woods in West Hills, on Long Island, east of New York City. I highly recommend taking an autumnal hike or stroll if you can. Then you may feel the truth in Whitman’s line, "As to me I know of nothing else but miracles". There’s much beauty out there. Here are some ...2 weeks ago -
Levi’s America (Go Forth) Commercial
The Steel Closet —
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From the description: Levi’s America (Go Forth) commercial directed by Cary Fukunaga for Wieden+Kennedy, Portland. The lines are from Walt Whitman’s America, which I’m sure was a poem that my teacher made us read in high school. And now it’s culturally relevant for today’s jeans-wearer.2 weeks ago -
Reconciliation
Gordon Cheng's blog —
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This poem by Walt Whitman, Reconciliation , was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams: Word over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soild ...2 weeks ago -
Levis commercial with Walt Whitman
swimming freestyle —
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Levis has a brand new and pretty unique ad campaign ("Go Forth") featuring the poems of Walt Whitman. One commercial features an actor reading Whitmans "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" but another includes whats thought to be the only existing recording of Walt Whitmans voice. Heres the ad with Whitmans reading of four ...2 weeks ago -
Eff. Brilliant.
Martini Lifestyle, Beer Budget —
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This is the best advertisement Ive seen in a long, long while . Not because it sells blue jeans terribly well, but because it draws me in, bouys me up, and makes me say " yes ! America !" You may well know, given my surly-misanthropic-bastard approach to expressing my feelings (what feelings?), that the ...2 weeks ago
