Filling the Well: Emily Dickinson and Louie Schwartzberg (Earth Day)

 

Joshua Mayer

 

Amherst College Digital Collections

 

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,

One clover, and a bee,

And revery.

The revery alone will do,

If bees are few.

 

– Emily Dickinson

 

 

Read Emily Dickinson's advice on prairie restoration at WingraSprings.

 

 

 "The Beauty of Pollination" 

Moving Art by Louie Schwartzberg

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiszdkOwuU

 

 

Meet the artist who is painting 50,000 bees to raise awareness of their plight HERE.

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

April 18: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

April 19: Marcus Aurelius, Odilon Redon, Garip Ay, and Vincent van Gogh

April 20: Shannon L. Alder, Randy Hilliker, and Marina and the Diamonds

April 21: Hayao Miyazaki and Huang Yi

 

 

The Progressive Poem is a crowd favorite during National Poetry Month. Today it's making its 22nd stop at Reflections on the Teche, where Margaret Simon is also hosting this week's Poetry Friday roundup. 

 

You'll find the National Poetry Month kidlit events roundup at Jama's Alphabet Soup.

 

Two Line Tuesday: Henry David Thoreau

Earthrise, taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

– Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters 

 Here are some things you can do.

Teardrops: an Earth Day haiku

Today's little ditty... well... my original plan was to head off to the library and find the perfect poem in celebration of Earth Day.  To be sure, there is a lot to celebrate about our beautiful planet!  But, as luck would have it, I saw a squirrel get hit by an SUV on my morning walk.  As I used a stick to gingerly move it to the side of the road (no sense in letting another car add insult to injury), I thought about this poor creature as a reflection of Mother Earth herself, and thus this poem was born.  It's a little darker than what I would typically like to post here, but I hope you can appreciate the optimism.

Teardrops

 

A trickle of blood

from the eyes of our Mother…

but it’s not too late.

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