The Penny Blog's featured poem for January 2025:
A Winter Picture, by Evelyn Wetherald
An air as sharp as steel, a sky
Pierced with a million points of fire
[...]
Friday, January 3, 2025
Thursday, January 2, 2025
January / George J. Dance
January
Black branches on white
with one smear of colour,
a leaf unfallen.
~~
George J. Dance
from Logos, and other logoi, 2021
Illustration by George J. Dance (using Grok AI). CC0 1.0, public domain.
"January" by George J. Dance is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Penny's Top 20 / December 2024
Penny's Top 20
The most-visited poems on The Penny Blog in December 2024:
10. Under the Mistletoe, Countee Cullen
11. Christmas at Melrose, Leslie Pinckney Hill
12. Nativity, John Donne
13. Before the Snow, George Parsons Lathrop
14. December, Edwin Arnold
15. Ballade of Christmas Ghosts, Andrew Lang
20. Ritual Memory, Will Dockery
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Penny's Top 100 of 2024
Penny's Top 100
The most-visited poems on The Penny Blog in 2024:
1. Logos, George J. Dance
2. Skating, William Wordsworth
3. Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens
4. Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens
6. December, John Clare
7. June Rain, Richard Aldington
8. The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams
9. August, Edmund Spenser
10. The Dwarf, Wallace Stevens
11. A Morning Song (for the First Day of Spring), Eleanor Farjeon
12. February, George J. Dance
13. April Weather, Edith Wyatt
14. Winter Song, Elizabeth Tollett
15. Amarant, AE Reiff
16. Moonlight Alert, Yvor Winters
17. Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion, Wallace Stevens
18. Hymn, Jack Kerouac
19. Winter Ghost (Taking a Time out), Will Dockery
20. Autumn's Orchestra, Pauline Johnson
21. Silk Diamond, George Sulzbach
22. Summer Stars, Carl Sandburg
23. Poem with Rhythms, Wallace Stevens
24. At the Gates of Dawn, George J. Dance
25. Winterworld Descending, Will Dockery
26. August, George J. Dance
27. September, Vizant* Or
28. October, George J. Dance
29. A Meadow in Spring, Tom Bishop
30. Auld Lang Syne, Robert Burns
31. November, George J. Dance
32. My soul is an enchanted boat, Percy Bysshe Shelley
33. For My Darling, Archibald Lampman
34. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, W.B. Yeats
35. Mowing, Robert Frost
36. All Souls Night, Frances Cornford
37. Spring Rains, George Sulzbach
38. Fair Summer Droops, Thomas Nash
39. On a Thrush Singing in Autumn, Lewis Morris
40. Ritual Memory, Will Dockery
41. St. Patrick's Day, Jean Blewett
42. The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats
43. Canada, Pauline Johnson
44. love is more thicker than forget, E.E. Cummings
45. August Moon, J.C. Squire
46. A Remembrance of Autumn, Adelaide Procter
47. When Summer Comes, Sophia Almon Hensley
48. Velvet Shoes, Elinor Wylie
49. A Day in June, James Russell Lowell
50. Ganesha Girl on Rankin, Will Dockery
51. The Grotto, Barry Cornwall
52. January, James Russell Lowell
53. In the Bleak Mid-winter, Christina Rossetti
54. Season of Change, George Sulzbach
55. The Old Year out and the New Year in, Augusta Webster
56. Winter Streams, Bliss Carman
57. A July Fern-Leaf, Mortimer Collins
58. Good Riddance, but Now What?, Ogden Nash
59. An April Rain Song, Langston Hughes
60. A Summer Morning, George Henry Boker
61. A Song of Winter, Emily Pfeiffer
62. Autumn, Francis Ledwidge
63. Ballad of the Goodly Fere, Ezra Pound
64. For the Fallen, Laurence Binyon
65. At the New Year, Kenneth Patchen
66. Night Rain, Christopher Mercon
67. March, Edwin Arnold
68. Tell me not here, it needs not saying, A.E. Housman
69. March Sunset, Hilda Conkling
70. Long Island Sound, Emma Lazarus
71. Darkness, Lord Byron
72. Manitoba Childe Roland, Carl Sandburg
73. The Winter Lakes, William Wilfred Campbell
74. August Child, Marion Strobel
75. Bird Cage, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
76. In the Fields, Charlotte Mew
77. First Week in October, Charles Tennyson Turner
78. A Summer Night, Matthew Arnold
79. Dawn in the June Woods, William Wilfred Campbell
80. October, Louise Driscoll
81. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months, Robert Herrick
82. The March, J.C. Squire
83. Evening, Katherine Hale
84. To a Thrush Singing in January, John Keble
85. Sea-Fever, John Masefield
86. We Like the Winter and Its Snows, James Berry Bensel
87. July, Susan Hartley Swett
88. March: An ode, A.C. Swinburne
89. February the First on the Prairies, Wilson MacDonald
90. September, Edwin Arnold
91. Vacation End, Leslie Pinckney Hill
92. To the Sea Angel, Will Dockery
93. Autumnal Day, Rainer Maria Rilke
94. August, Edwin Arnold
95. When I heard the learned astronomer, Walt Whitman
96. The Parterre, E.H. Palmer
97. When icicles hang by the wall, William Shakespeare
98. January, Edwin Arnold
99. The Manor Farm, Edward Thomas
100 i thank you God for most this amazing, E.E. Cummings
Source: Blogger, "Stats"
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