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2025-06-11 National Making Life Beautiful Day
【Primordia in the Carolinas 7 (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The lilacs wither in the Carolinas.
Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins.
Already the new-born children interpret love
In the voices of mothers.
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2025-05-16 National Bike to Work Day
【Primordia in the South 6 (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Unctuous furrows,
The ploughman portrays in you
The spring about him:
Compilation of the effects
Of magenta blooming in the Judas-tree
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2025-05-16 National Endangered Species Day
【5 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The birch trees draw up whiteness from the ground.
In the swamps, bushes draw up dark red,
Or yellow.
O, boatman,
What are you drawing from the r
2025-05-16 National Barbecue Day
【4 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The horses gnaw the bark from the trees.
The horses are hollow,
The trunks of the trees are hollow.
Why do the horses have eyes and ears?
The trees do not.
Why can the horses move about on the
2025-05-15 Bring Flowers To Someone Day
【1 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
All over Minnesota,
Cerise sopranos,
Walking in the snow,
Answer, humming,
The male voice of the wind in the dry leaves
2025-05-10 National Train Day
【Bowl (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
For what emperor
Was this bowl of Earth designed?
Here are more things
Than on any bowl of the Sungs,
Even the rarest—
Vines that take&nbs
2025-05-10 National Windmill Day
【Inscription for a Monument (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
To the imagined lives
Evoked by music,
Creatures of horns, flutes, drums,
Violins, bassoons, cymbals—
Nude porters that glistened in Burma
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2025-05-10 World Fair Trade Day
【Eight Significant Landscapes·VII (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Crenellations of mountains
Cut like strummed zithers;
But dead trees do not resemble
Beaten drums.
—— ?
2025-04-26 National Pretzel Day
【Eight Significant Landscapes·V (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Wrestle with morning-glories,
O, muscles!
It is useless to contend
With falling mountains.
—— ? —— ?
2025-04-19 Easter Eve
【Song (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There are great things doing
In the world,
Little rabbit.
There is a damsel,
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2025-04-19 Holy Saturday
【The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
My flowers are reflected
In your mind
As you are reflected in your glass.
When you look at them,
2025-04-19 Black Saturday
【Blanche McCarthy (1915-1916?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Look in the terrible mirror of the sky
And not in this dead glass, which can reflect
Only the surfaces—the bending arm,
The leaning shoulder and the searching eye.
2025-04-19 National Hanging Out Day
【The Silver Plough-Boy (1915)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A black figure dances in a black field.
It seizes a sheet, from the ground, from a hush, as if spread there
by some wash-woman for the night.
It wraps the sheet around its body, until the black figure is
silver.
It dances down a furrow, in the early light, back of a crazy
plough, the green blades follo
2025-04-19 National Garlic Day
【To Madame Alda, Singing A Song, In A White Gown】
(1913-1915?)
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
So much sorrow comes to me out of your singing.
A few large, round leaves of wan pink
Float in a small space of air,
Luminously.
A white
2025-04-19 Bicycle Day
【The Night-Wind Of August… (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The night-wind of August
Is like an old mother to me.
It comforts me.
I rest in it,
As one would rest,
If one could,
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2025-03-29 World Piano Day
【I Have Lived So Long With The Rhetoricians】
(1913-1915?)
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I have lived so long with the rhetoricians
That when I see a pine tree
Broken by lightning
Or hear a crapulous crow
In dead boughs,
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2025-03-23 World Meteorological Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The letters of the alphabet
Are representations of parts of the head.
Ears are q s
L s are the wrinkled skin between the eyes
In frowns.
2025-03-22 National Goof Off Day
【An Exercise for Professor X (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I see a camel in my mind.
I do not say to myself, in English,
"There is a camel."
I do not talk to myself
2025-03-15 National Brutus Day
【L'Essor Saccadé (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Swallows in the elderberry,
Fly to the steeple.
Then from one apple-tree
Fly to another.
2025-03-15 World Contact Day
【All Things Imagined Are Of Earth Compact… (1913-1915?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
All things imagined are of earth compact,
Strange beast and bird, strange creatures all;
Strange minds of men, unwilling slaves to fact:
Strug
2025-03-15 World Consumer Rights Day
【Phases·XI (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
War has no haunt except the heart,
Which envy haunts, and hate, and fear,
And malice, and ambition, near
The haunt of love. Who shall impart,
&
2025-03-15 Buzzards Day
【Phases·X (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Peace means long, delicious valleys,
In the mode of Claude Lorraine;
Rivers of jade,
In serpentines,
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2025-03-15 World Speech Day
【Phases·IX (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Life, the hangman, never came,
Near our mysteries of flame.
When we marched across his towns,
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2025-02-25 Let's All Eat Right Day
【Phases·VIII (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
What shall we say to the lovers of freedom,
Forming their states for new ears to come?
Say that the fighter is master of men.
Shall we, then, say to the lovers of freedom
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2025-03-02 Dr. Seuss Day
【Phases·VII (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The vaguest line of smoke,(a year ago),
Wavered in evening air, above the roof,
As if some Old Man of the Chimney, sick
Of summer and that unused hearth below,
2025-02-22 National Margarita Day
【Phases·VI (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
[First Part Missing]
The crisp, sonorous epics
Mongered after every scene.
Sluggards must be quickened! Screen,
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2025-02-22 World Thinking Day
【Phases·I (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
"La justice sans force est contredite, parce
qu'il y a toujours des méchants; la force sans
la justics est accusée." Pascal
There was heaven,
Full of Raphael's costumes;
And earth,
2025-02-22 History of Natl Rec Sports and Fitness Day
【Home Again (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Back within the valley,
Down from the divide,
No more flaming clouds about,
O! the soft hillside,
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2025-02-19 International Tug of War Day
【From a Junk (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A great fish plunges in the dark,
Its fins of rutted silver; sides,
Belabored with a foamy light;
And back, brilliant with scaly salt.
It glistens in the flapping wind,
&
2025-02-01 International Pisco Sour Day
【Carnet de Voyage VIII·On an Old Guitar (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It was a simple thing
For her to sit and sing,
"Hey nonino!"
&
2025-01-28 Lunar New Year's Eve
【Carnet de Voyage VII·Chinese Rocket (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There, a rocket in the Wain
Brings primeval night again.
All the startled heavens flare
From the Shepherd to
2025-01-26 National Green Juice Day
【Carnet de Voyage VI·Man from the Waste Evolved (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Man from the waste evolved
The Cytherean glade,
Imposed on battering seas
His keel
2025-01-18 National Gourmet Coffee Day
【Carnet de Voyage V·I Am Weary of the Plum (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I am weary of the plum and of the cherry,
And that buff moon in evening's aquarelle,
I have no heart within to make me merry.
I nod above the books of Heaven or Hell.
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2024-12-24 Vigil of the Nativity
【Carnet de Voyage IV·She That Winked Her Sandal Fan (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
She that winked her sandal fan
Long ago in gray Japan-
She that heard the bell intone
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2024-12-21 Winter Solstice
【Carnet de Voyage III·Here the Grass Grows (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Here the grass grows,
And the wind blows,
And in the stream,
2024-12-14 Halcyon Days
【Carnet de Voyage II·One More Sunset (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The green goes from the corn,
The blue from all the lakes,
And the shadows of the mountains mingle in the sky.
Far off, the still bamboo
2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Comes to my fancy, slight,
Tenderly spiced and gay,
As if a saraph's hand
Unloosed the fragrant silks
2024-12-14 Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day
【Infernale (1913-1914?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
(A boor of night in middle earth cries out,)
Hola! Hola! What steps are those that break
This curst of air?… (He pauses.) Can breath shake
The solid wax from which the warmth dies out?…
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2024-12-14 National Screwdriver (Classic Cocktail) Day
【Dolls (1913-1914?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The thought of Eve, within me, is a doll
That does what I desire, as, to perplex,
With apple-buds, the husband in her sire.
There's a pious caliph, now,
2024-12-01 National Christmas Lights Day
【Chiaroscuro (1908)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The house-fronts flare
In the blown rain
The ghostly street-lamps
Have a pallid glare,
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2024-11-29 National Square Dancing Day
【Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the moonlight
I met Berserk,
In the moonlight
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2024-11-25 National Parfait Day
【Testamentum (1909?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Plant the tea-plant on my grave,
And bury with me funerary cups,
Of which let one be such
That young Persephone will not resist
2024-10-20 National Day on Writing
【The Public Square (1931)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A slash of angular blacks
Like a fractured edifice
That was buttressed by blue slats
In a coma of the moon.
2024-10-19 National Sweetest Day
【On the Way to the Bus (1954)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A light snow, like frost, has fallen during the night.
Gloomily, the journalist confronts
Transparent man in a translated world,
In which he feeds on a new known,
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2024-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Palace of the Babies (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The disbeliever walked the moonlit place,
Outside of gates of hammered serafin,
Observing the moon-blotches on the walls.
The yellow rocked across the st
2024-10-19 International Gin and Tonic Day
【Colors·II (1909)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Lapis-lazuli and orange, and opaque green,
fawn-color, black and gold…
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【《色彩·之二》(1909)】
异乡人?史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)
【红霞译】
2024-10-19 National New Friends Day
【Colors·I (1909)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Pale orange, green and crimson, and
white, and gold and brown.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
【《色彩·之一》(1909)】
异乡人?史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)
【红霞译】
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2024-10-18 National Mashed Potato Day
【Six Significant Landscapes·IV (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
When my dream was near the moon,
The white folds of its gown
Filled with yellow light.
The soles of its feet
Grew red.
&
2024-10-10 National Cake Decorating Day
【The Auroras of Autumn·VI (1948)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is a theatre floating through the clouds,
Itself a cloud, although of misted rock
And mountains running like water, wave on wave,
Through waves of light. It is of cloud transformed
To cloud transformed again, idly, the way
A season changes color to no end,
Except the lavishing of itself in change,
As light changes yellow into gold and gold
To its opal elements and fire's delight,
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2024-09-14 National Coloring Day
【A High-Toned Old Christian Woman (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
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2024-09-14 National Cream Filled Donut Day
【Autumn Refrain (1932)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The skreak and skritter of evening gone
And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun,
The sorrows of sun, too, gone... the moon and moon,
The yellow moon of words about the nightingale
In measureless measures, not a bird for me
But the name of a
2024-09-08 National Ampersand Day
【First Warmth (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I wonder, have I lived a skeleton's life,
As a questioner about reality,
A countryman of all the bones in the world?
Now, here, the warmth I had forgotten becomes
2024-08-13 National Filet Mignon Day
【Immense and Clumsy】
Nancy Anne Miller
Elephant-like, steel grey body,
Immense and clumsy on
Our driveway, the Waterworks
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2024-08-09 National Hand Holding Day
【Long Tale】
Nancy Anne Miller
The kiskadee, with a yellow
Waistcoat, is full of himself.
White streaks on his face
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2024-08-08 National Happiness Happens Day
【Pink Tangle Teezer】
Nancy Anne Miller
Like a rose sun coral, nodules waft a watery aqua sky,
Deep down in the semitropical ocean of her youth.
A pink floral Octocorallia with tentacles swaying
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2024-08-08 National Pickleball Day
【Coccoloba Uvifera】
Nancy Anne Miller
Like a scrotum full of seed,
The cluster of bay grapes
Hang down on a semitropical
2024-08-08 International Cat Day
【Humpback Whale】
Nancy Anne Miller
You need a hump to
be in tune with a curvy
ocean, to rise like one in
Notre Dame's Cathedral.
&
2024-08-07 National Lighthouse Day
【Moon Jelly】
Nancy Anne Miller
Lacey as doilies for tea cups,
A soft sense of politeness present
When the sea harmonized itself
2024-08-06 International Scuba Day
【Sea Squid】
Nancy Anne Miller
Capped like a nursery bonnet
With tentacles streaming ties.
A missing tooth of the sea,
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2024-06-24 International Fairy Day
【Memories Of Holland (Herinnering aan Holland)】
Hendrik Marsman (1899–1940)
Thinking about Holland,
I see broad rivers
Moving slowly through
Endless lowlands.
&nbs
2024-06-23 Public Service Day
【Song: III】
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗
They killed three little mads
To see what was in their hearts.
The first was full of happiness,
2024-06-23 National Typewriter Day
【Song: II】
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗
And if he should come again,
What am I to say?
– Tell him some one looked for him,
2024-06-23 National Porridge Day
【Song: I】
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗
She has chained her within a grot,
Upon the gate a sign put she;
The maiden has the light forgot,
The key has fall'n into the sea.
&
2024-06-22 World Rainforest Day
【Sesame and Lilies】
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
For all books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Mark this distinction - it is not one of quality only. It is not merely the bad book that does not last, and the good one that does. It is a distinction of species. There are good books for the hour, and good ones for all time; bad books for the hour, and bad ones for all ti
2024-06-21 National Smoothie Day
【My arm clasped your fragile waist
(Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
My arm clasped your fragile waist
that's supple as a reed;
Your breast beat like the wing
Of a young bird！
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2024-06-21 Wagyu Day
【Chanson】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Si vous n'avez rien à me dire,
Pourquoi venir auprès de moi ?
Pourquoi me faire ce sourire
Qui tournerait la tête au roi ?
Si vous n'avez rien à me dire,
2024-06-21 World Music Day
【The Genesis Of The Butterfly (Vere novo)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers
The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers
That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings
In jasmine bloom, and periwinkle, of white wings,
That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,
With muffled music, murmured far and w
2024-06-20 National Vanilla Milkshake Day
【January 1st (1er janvier)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Child, you will be told later that the grandfather
adored you; that he did his best on earth,
That he had very little joy and much envy,
That when you were little he was old,
That he had no gruff words or morose airs,
&nbs
2024-06-20 National Ice Cream Soda Day
【I love a little child, and I'm an old fool
(J'aime un petit enfant, et je suis un vieux fou)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Grandfather?
What?
I want to go away.
To go where?
Wherever I want.
Let us leave.
I want to remain, Grandfather.
Let us rem
2024-06-20 World Tapas Day
【Yesterday Evening (Hier Au Soir)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Yesterday, the evening wind, whose breath caresses,
Brought us the scent of flowers that open late;
Night was falling; the bird slept in the thick shadow.
Spring was fragrant, less than your youth;
The stars were shining, less than your gaze.
&
2024-06-19 World Sauntering Day
【The Ocean's Song (Nous nous promenions à Rozel-Tower)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
We walked amongst the ruins famed in story
Of Rozel-Tower,
And saw the boundless waters stretch in glory
And heave in power.
O Ocean vast! We heard thy song with wonder,
Whilst waves marked time.
2024-06-19 National Garfield the Cat Day
【To A Woman (A une femme)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Child! if I were king, I would give the empire,
And my chariot, and my scepter, and my people on their knees
And my crown of gold, and my baths of porphyry,
And my fleets, for which the sea cannot suffice,
For a look of you!
If I were God, the earth and the air with the waves,
Angels, demons bowed before my law,
And the deep cha
2024-06-18 International Picnic Day
【To the Imperious Beauty (A la belle impérieuse)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Love, panic
Of reason,
Communicates
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2024-06-18 Sustainable Gastronomy Day
【To My Daughter Adele (A ma fille Adèle)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
As a child, you slept near me, pink and fresh,
Like a baby Jesus dozing in his manger;
Your pure sleep was so calm and lovely
That you didn't hear the bird sing in the shadows;
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2024-06-18 National Go Fishing Day
【To Souls Flown Away (A des ?mes envolées)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
These souls that you recall,
My heart, don't come back.
Why then do they persist,
Alas! to stay there?
In t
2024-06-17 National Take Your Cat to Work Day
【More Strong Than Time (Plus fort que le temps)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it,
And all the perfume rare, now buried in the shade;
Since it was given to m
2024-06-17 National Stewart's Root Beer Day
【June Nights (Nuits de juin)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
In summer, when the day has fled, the plain covered with flowers
Pours out far away an intoxicating scent;
Eyes shut, ears half open to noises,
We only half sleep in a transparent slumber.
The stars are purer, the shade seems pleasanter;
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2024-06-17 National Apple Strudel Day
【Sunset (Les Soleils Couchants)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The sun set tonight in the clouds.
Tomorrow will come the storm, and the evening, and the night;
Then dawn, and its clarity of obstructed vapors;
Then the nights, then the days, not of time that flees!
All these days will pass; they will pass in crowds
On the face of the seas, on the face of the mountains,
On the silver rivers, on the forests where rolls
Like a confused hymn of the dead that we love.
And
2024-06-17 National Eat Your Vegetables Day
【Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain, dès l'aube)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Tomorrow, at dawn, when the countryside brightens,
I will depart. You see, I know that you wait for me.
I will go through the woods, I will go past the mountains.
I cannot remain far from you any longer.
I will walk, eyes set upon my thoughts,
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2024-06-16 World Refill Day
【Variation (Variación)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The remanso of air
Under the branch of echo.
The remanso of water
Under a frond of stars.
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2024-06-16 National Fudge Day
【Little Song of Seville (Cancioncilla sevillana)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Dawn is awakening
In the orange grove.
The little golden bees
Are looking for honey.
&nbs
2024-06-16 International Day of Family Remittances
【Landscape (Paisaje)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
To Rita, Concha, Pepe and Carmencica
The mistaken afternoon
Dressed in cold.
Behind the windows,
2024-06-16 National Turkey Lovers' Day
【Clock Clear (Claro de reloj)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
I sat
In a clearing of time.
It was a haven
Of silence,
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2024-06-15 World Martini Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The moon goes across the water.
How calm the sky is!
It slowly mows down
the old tremor of the river
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2024-06-15 International Surfing Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
(Maybe it was because you hadn't mastered Geometry)
The lad was going blank.
It was ten in the morning.
His heart was
2024-06-15 World Juggling Day
【Died at Dawn (Murió Al Amanecer)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Four moon night
And a single tree,
With a single shadow
And a single bird.
2024-06-15 Nature Photography Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The girl with the lovely face,
Goes, gathering olives.
The wind, that towering lover,
Takes her by the waist.
&n
2024-06-14 National Strawberry Shortcake Day
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
To be great, be whole: nothing that's you
Should you exaggerate or exclude.
In each thing, be all. Give all you are
In the least you ever do.
The whole moon, because it ride
2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Of the gardens of Adonis, Lydia, I love
Most of all those fugitive roses
That on the day they are born,
That very day, must also die.
Eternal, for them, the light of day:
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2024-06-14 National Bourbon Day
【Odes】
Ricardo Reis, Heteronym of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Don't try to build in the space you suppose
Is future, Lydia, and don't promise yourself
Tomorrow. Quit hoping and be who you are
Today. You alone are your life.
Don'
2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day
【I Am A Shepherd (Sou um guardador de rebanhos)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
I am a shepherd.
The sheep are my thoughts
And all my thoughts and sensations.
I think with my eyes and ears,
My feet and hands
2024-06-13 National Seersucker Day
【Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Vivem em nós inómeros)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Countless lives inhabit us.
I don't know, when I think or feel,
Who it is that thinks or feels.
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2024-06-13 World Softball Day
【I Know, I Alone (Estar Sozinho)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
I know, I alone
How much it hurts, this heart
2024-06-13 National Weed Your Garden Day
【Every Day Without Joy Was Not Yours (Cada dia sem gozo n?o foi teu)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Every day without joy was not yours
(The day you didn't enjoy wasn't yours):
You just had to stay with it. How much alive
Without enjoying it, you don't live.
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