FeistyEnglishTeacher

So sorry for your losses , Greg.There are some years in our lives when we seem to be Death’s punching bags.You obviously know that during those times,poetry can provide both reassurance and a balm for grief.Thanks for sharing this tribute—and so many wonderful selections.

Sunday Pages: "Dirge Without Music" A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"My father is three years dead, my godfather is now dead, and at 53, I am nearer the end of the journey than the beginning. In the tortuous TSA line of life, I’m one step closer to taking off my shoes and walking through the metal detector to the great airport terminal in the sky."

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte
1 Mar 1927🎂
#MusicSky🎵

Congress should also be wondering…

a woman with wet hair looks at a man ALT: a woman with wet hair looks at a man

“The April’s in her eyes. It is love’s spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.—Be cheerful.”
A&C A3S2

#ShakespeareSunday

As fit as…a morris for May Day.
All's Well That Ends Well
#ShakespeareSunday

#shakespearesunday
"Proud-pied April, dressed in all her trim, hath put a spirit of youth into everything.." 🐑🐑
Sonnet 98 #spring

“Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows” - Sonnet 33 #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
~ Magnolias and Irises by Louis C. Tiffany, @metmuseum.org

I love Tiffany’s irises.

A rainy day in a garden with lots of flowers and a bench in the background. Alt: A very rainy day in a garden with lots of flowers and a bench in the background.

"It is love’s spring,
And these the showers to bring it on.
Be cheerful."

Antony and Cleopatra
Act 3, Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Spring

Thanks, Karen! I love cherry blossom “snow”.

BNW of a pair of wary Canada geese with their brood of 4 fluffy goslings. Their black necks are long and slender, their bibs are gray white. In the foreground, Mama is looking directly into the camera and is surrounded by her young.

Wary new parents protect their four chicks. (Archive) #Birds #Nature #BirdOftheDay #FourOrMore #EastCoastKin #Photography #Spring

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Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.
“King Henry VI Part 2: #ShakespeareSunday

a picture of a baby chicken sitting next to a yellow flower ALT: a picture of a baby chicken sitting next to a yellow flower

When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
'The Winter's Tale' 4.2, l. 1
#ShakespeareSunday

A man is raking the grass in a yard while a dog is riding a mower. It is captioned "yard work." Alt: A man is raking the grass in a yard while a dog is riding a mower. It is captioned "yard work."

"Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry."

Henry VI, Part 2 
Act 3, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Spring

“give me an egg, and I’ll give  thee two crowns.” - King Lear (Act 1, Scene 4) #ShakespeareSunday #Faberge @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
~ The Basket of Flowers Egg
The Tsarina kept the egg in her study at the Winter Palace.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
Sonnet 18 #ShakespeareSunday
#Bloomscrolling
Photo mine.

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April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
Sonnet 98 #ShakespeareSunday

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
'As You Like It' 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday
Camelot

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.

'The Winter's Tale' 4. 3, l. 116 #ShakespeareSunday Photo from my archive. #Bloomscrolling #ImageAndVerse #Stunday

So sorry, Christine!

Presidential.

From Schumer, not a word. From AIPAC Shakur, not a word. From Kamala Harris, thankfully, a statement.

A 3 yr old child slides down a very long cylindrical tube. Its exterior is peacock green and the interior is bright orange. There is blue sky behind the ride.

Down the tall round slide. #BlueskyArtShow #Round #EastCoastKin
#PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear

Trump’s case for striking Iran rests on questionable claims.

Follow the embedded links for more fact checking.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

A capture of a sunrise. A cloud filled sky amber with a break where the sun flares.

Do not worry about the past:
it is, after all, past,
and fades daily in our memory
and in the memories of everyone else.
Further, it can't touch the future
unless we let it.
-Phillip Larkin

Have a wonderful day warriors.

##sunrise #photography #nature #bluesky #imageandverse #landscape

You’re welcome!

Beautiful capture!

•just carry on

Hegseth makes a great Scheisskopf...