Will Dockery wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:

>> On 2022-04-10 3:22 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>> Early April in England, by Percy MacKaye
>>>
>>>> Across the moist beam of the cloud-rimmed sun,
>>>> The larks run up in ecstasies of Spring
>>>> [...]
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-april-in-england-percy-mackaye.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> Quite good.....

>> I'm glad you liked it. Frankly, it was a last-minute substitution (I'd
>> planned to use a poem by an author who already it turns out already had
>> another poem slotted in this month.)

>> If I'd had it on the list, I'd probably have used it Saturday and
>> Oppenheim's on Sunday, as a segue to England, setting the scene for the
>> Spenser poem.

>> But, because it was short, I added a picture of a lark in flight, so it
>> looks good where it is; and it does flow well enough into Oppenheim's poem.

> I doubt anyone will argue over this obviously obscure poet.

Yep, but he is fairly well known in Ohio.....

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Dedication of Ohio historical marker for Percy MacKaye and "The Poet's Shack"

https://miamioh.edu/news/top-stories/2017/06/mackaye-marker.html

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Victor H. wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> George J. Dance wrote:

>>> On 2022-04-10 3:22 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>>> Early April in England, by Percy MacKaye
>>>>
>>>>> Across the moist beam of the cloud-rimmed sun,
>>>>> The larks run up in ecstasies of Spring
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-april-in-england-percy-mackaye.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Quite good.....

>>> I'm glad you liked it. Frankly, it was a last-minute substitution (I'd
>>> planned to use a poem by an author who already it turns out already had
>>> another poem slotted in this month.)

>>> If I'd had it on the list, I'd probably have used it Saturday and
>>> Oppenheim's on Sunday, as a segue to England, setting the scene for the
>>> Spenser poem.

>>> But, because it was short, I added a picture of a lark in flight, so it
>>> looks good where it is; and it does flow well enough into Oppenheim's poem.

>> I doubt anyone will argue over this obviously obscure poet.

> Yep, but he is fairly well known in Ohio.....

> *****************************************************************************

> Dedication of Ohio historical marker for Percy MacKaye and "The Poet's Shack"

> https://miamioh.edu/news/top-stories/2017/06/mackaye-marker.html

> ************************************

Good find.

Will Dockery wrote:

>>> George J. Dance wrote:

>>>> On 2022-04-10 3:22 p.m., General-Zod wrote:
>>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>>>> Early April in England, by Percy MacKaye
>>>>>
>>>>>> Across the moist beam of the cloud-rimmed sun,
>>>>>> The larks run up in ecstasies of Spring
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-april-in-england-percy-mackaye.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Quite good.....

>>>> I'm glad you liked it. Frankly, it was a last-minute substitution (I'd
>>>> planned to use a poem by an author who already it turns out already had
>>>> another poem slotted in this month.)

>>>> If I'd had it on the list, I'd probably have used it Saturday and
>>>> Oppenheim's on Sunday, as a segue to England, setting the scene for the
>>>> Spenser poem.

>>>> But, because it was short, I added a picture of a lark in flight, so it
>>>> looks good where it is; and it does flow well enough into Oppenheim's poem.

>>> I doubt anyone will argue over this obviously obscure poet.

>> Yep, but he is fairly well known in Ohio.....

>> *****************************************************************************

>> Dedication of Ohio historical marker for Percy MacKaye and "The Poet's Shack"

>> https://miamioh.edu/news/top-stories/2017/06/mackaye-marker.html

>> ************************************

> Good find.

A good read...

Victor H. wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:

>> General-Zod wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>>>>> Early April in England, by Percy MacKaye
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Across the moist beam of the cloud-rimmed sun,
>>>>>>> The larks run up in ecstasies of Spring
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/early-april-in-england-percy-mackaye.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quite good.....

>>>>> I'm glad you liked it. Frankly, it was a last-minute substitution (I'd
>>>>> planned to use a poem by an author who already it turns out already had
>>>>> another poem slotted in this month.)

>>>>> If I'd had it on the list, I'd probably have used it Saturday and
>>>>> Oppenheim's on Sunday, as a segue to England, setting the scene for the
>>>>> Spenser poem.

>>>>> But, because it was short, I added a picture of a lark in flight, so it
>>>>> looks good where it is; and it does flow well enough into Oppenheim's poem.

>>>> I doubt anyone will argue over this obviously obscure poet.

>>> Yep, but he is fairly well known in Ohio.....

>>> *****************************************************************************

>>> Dedication of Ohio historical marker for Percy MacKaye and "The Poet's Shack"

>>> https://miamioh.edu/news/top-stories/2017/06/mackaye-marker.html

>>> ************************************

>
> A good read...

Agreed.