World Poetry Day

N. Hawthorne encouraged us to do anything, something, (heroic?) even though life brings huge discouragement: "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, that life is but an empty dream ..." PSALM OF LIFE I had to pen something like poetry today It's World Poetry day, they say (internet ads) Yet today is over, on its way, where we "stay"* In South Africa. No internet on other phone By chance I tried this (MTN service), won A reprieve, a respite, an extension to the day A list of best poems: Poe's Raven, Sonnet 18 By the bard (Shall I compare thee to a summers day?) Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love poem And Nathaniel Hawthorne's PSALM OF LIFE So my work - brief, bearing light - is done And off I run ... In donker** Suid Africa again * STAY has US connotations with cohabitation and vacation. In RSA, it is used for "live" (as in, Where do you live/stay now?") ** "Donker' is dark or darkness, in Afrikaans. I used it because of loadshedding: our notoriety for electricity cuts that has business & people in "revolt" here.