Mind of Winter | Alan | Activity https://mindofwinter.org/members/alan/activity/ Activity feed for Alan. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:24:30 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4e660c04c403b32fc25da2ca7bf73ed7 Alan wrote a new post https://mindofwinter.org/?p=119 Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:48:37 -0700 Jon pointed me years ago to this nearly perfect poem by A.E. Houseman:

by A.E. Houseman

Here dead lie we because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.

Life, to be sure, is nothing […]

]]> 6e109331bdd1a3235342f788c0fff0c1 Alan wrote a new post https://mindofwinter.org/?p=116 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:26:38 -0700 I had the greatest lexicographic moment of my life when I looked up the word ‘cromlech’ after reading this poem.

The Cromlech
by Louis MacNeice

From trivia of froth and pollen
White tufts in the rabbit […]

]]> ec86040f5493a739e7b51758efe37270 Alan commented on the post, Things... https://mindofwinter.org/2005/09/03/things/comment-page-1/#comment-666 Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:15:04 -0600 I have wanted to post something about this for months now. The trouble is that I find it so hard to struggle with Stevens on my own. Where he is difficult to me I can usually find no way out. This poem, though, […]

]]> 875aea153be8499df62f59fb09e22e9f Alan wrote a new post https://mindofwinter.org/?p=102 Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:33:21 -0600 Mike’s posting of the Masters poem “Silence” made up my mind to post this Nemerov poem that I just encountered.

Life Cycle of Common Man
by Howard Nemerov

Roughly figured, this man of moderate habits,
This […]

]]> f1e46e9710bdff060025672531b0fe03 Alan commented on the post, Nemerov's Sweeper https://mindofwinter.org/2005/05/04/nemerovs-sweeper/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Fri, 13 May 2005 02:46:09 -0600 The grammatical stumbling blocks that Mike points out just don’t bother me too much. I have the most trouble with “dispense their more leaves easily” since its hard to see what meaning ‘more’ adds here. Clearly […]

]]> 32f2ba83422150d12dd0f7c1ec8fc11e Alan wrote a new post https://mindofwinter.org/?p=89 Fri, 06 May 2005 22:30:02 -0600 Brian’s post about the early bird, lovely post that it was, left a small, very nasal fly inside my head who has been buzzing away, demanding a good swatting. This little essay is meant to be a rolled up piece of […]

]]> f538f15b7f0b721df7b03368a16a1da1 Alan commented on the post, Worms, Worms, Worms https://mindofwinter.org/2005/03/26/worms-worms-worms/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:43:31 -0600 Damn it, Brian, that is a fine post.

Your post makes me realize that what this particular dead trope, nestled in the hay of our minds, has bequeathed to the world is a character. The early bird. Old fellow. […]

]]> c4dc12e790bc9a99d6f0f19849e90133 Alan wrote a new post https://mindofwinter.org/?p=14 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 06:08:03 -0700 If one can abide stars that are simply points of light, inert things that don’t watch us and are no kind of companion—and certainly this is what we all believe nowadays—one can learn to adjust to an empty sky. […]

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