Today in History

May 07 Germany surrenders after WWII, 1945

May 07* Bank Holiday in UK

May 07 May Day in United Kingdom

May 07 Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1833

May 07 Tchaikowsky born, 1840

May 07 Nacimiento Eva Perón en Los Toldos (Buenos Aires), 1919

May 07* May Day (NT)

May 07* Labour Day (Qld)

May 07 Leopold III liberated in Austria, then transfered to Switzerland, 1945

May 07 N'oubliez pas les Gisèle !

May 07 Johannes Brahms in Hamburg geboren, 1833

May 07 Gizella

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spring

In spring there is first

budding and green and

dreaming ambition forming

into summer strength

and purpose giving shade

giving way to autumn

every leaf finding color

and spirit and freedom

falling to the ground

resting

until blanketed with snow.

The hill above my window then, as

white and barren

pure and empty

solid and strong

as an ivory buddha.

Today I part my hair

a little further to the left.

Every line brings color to

the inside, to the mind,

filling and emptying.

Yet I cannot age

with the grace of trees



tony baldwin 1994



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spring

Sonnet #18

(a parody)



Shall I compare thee to a bale of hay?

Thou art more dusty and far less neat.

Rough winds do toss thy mop about, I'd say,

Which looks far worse than hay a horse would eat.

Sometime thy squinty eye looks into mine

Through stringy, greasy hair that needs be trimm'd,

And ne'er a horse had such a stench as thine,

As though in stagnant sewers thou hast swimm'd.

Thy disgusting image shall not fade;

This my tortured mind and soul doth know.

O, I should love to hit thee with a spade;

And with that blow I hope that thou wouldst go.

So long as I can breathe, my eyes can see,

And I can run, I'll stay away from thee

(sorry, Will)



1991 tonybaldwin



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