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  • PPB: The Second Coming / Yeats

    From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 4 04:14:34 2023
    Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
    The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats
    [...]
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity
    [...] https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-second-coming-william-butler-yeats.html

    ("Slouching towards Bethlehem" sung by Joni Mitchell)

    #pennyspoems

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  • From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to Faraway Star on Wed Dec 6 19:43:59 2023
    On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 3:04:31 PM UTC-5, Faraway Star wrote:
    On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 6:27:41 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
    On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 4:40:21 PM UTC-5, Faraway Star wrote:
    On Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 11:20:25 PM UTC-5, George J. wrote:

    Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
    The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats
    [...]
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity
    [...] https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-second-coming-william-butler-yeats.html

    ("Slouching towards Bethlehem" sung by Joni Mitchell)

    #pennyspoems
    Love Yeats AND Joni M...!
    Agreed, great selection, George.
    Great minds and all that... ha ha.

    Thanks for keeping the thread where it can be noticed. I was happy to get this poem onto the blog. It was Joni MItchell's interpretation that brought me back to the poem; on rereading it, I was struck by how much the time Yeats describes sound like our
    own, and the latter is why I decided to blog it. Judging by the commenhts and reads (80 in its firstt three days), it seems to have resonated with a lot of readers.

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