Wednesday, April 2, 2025

April's featured poem


The Penny Blog's featured poem for April 2025:

An April Fool of Long Ago, by Jean Blewett

In powdered wig and buckled shoe,
Knee-breeches, coat and waistcoat gay,
The wealthy squire rode forth to woo
Upon a first of April day.
[...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-fool-jean-blewett.html

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Penny's Top 20 / March 2025


Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in March 2025:

  1.  Winter Ghost (Taking a Time Out), Will Dockery
  2.  Penny's Blog 2.0, George J. Dance
  3.  Skating, William Wordsworth
  4.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens
  5.  Tired of Waiting, Will Dockery
  6.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens
  7.  Spring is like a perhaps hand, E.E. Cummings
  8.  Always Marry an April Girl, Ogden Nash
  9.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud
10.  A Brief Winter Sunset, JD Shirk

12.  A Disappointment, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
13.  March is the Month of Expectation, Emily Dickinson 
14.  Song in March, William Gilmore Simms
15.  The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams
16.  Saint Augustine Blues #6, Will Dockery
17.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin
18.  March, Folgore de San Geminiano
19.  Spring: An ode, Jane West
20. To My Sister, William Wordsworth


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