Why do friendships happen?

Today's Tids Issue 4.706

Where do poems come from:

 

I have to imagine that there are people who really like the idea of not having to be closer than six feet from someone. Happy Introvert’s day.

 

Why do people become close? It must be some kind of natural selectivity. It is not about race or ethnicities, gender or even politics or economic position. My only guess is that it must come from the heart.

 

I have just read that all of the Wildebeests in Africa have been replaced by animatronic copies. Fake gnus!

 

Joe Biden boxed himself in by playing the Identity Politics card for his Veep Selection. You have to worry that if he gets elected, and when Putin and Xi are building the boxes.

 

I have to believe that all of this national animosity arose in the years following the FCC 4-0 1987 decision to abolish the “Fairness Doctrine” governing TV and radio. There’s something incongruous about a government body abolishing fairness. How do you abolish fairness? It just doesn’t seem fair.

 

The Question:

Who are considered the ten greatest all-time poets?

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Opening Lower; Analysts Discussing Weakening Dollar – Good Or Bad; Concerns Grow Over Potential National Eviction Trauma, Nasdaq Pausing To Take A breath Aftre Two Days Of Lofty Climbing.

--Isaias Hits North Carolina As Cat1 And Then Weakens; Heading Up Through Pa and NJ, Hudson River Valley Of NY And Western NE; NE Coast Spared; Tornado Watches Issue In Northeast.

--Top Primary Has Squad Member Tlaib Facing Stiff Competition From Detroit City Council President Brenda James; Kansas Primary Has Establishment Repubs Concerned Ove Trump’s Failure To Endorse Favored candidate Leaving Polarize ding Kris Kobach In Stronger Position.

--Corruption Charges Has Former Spain King Juan Carlos Leaving Country.

--Giant California “Apple” Fire Has Scorched 26,450 Acres; Still Raging.

--BBC Investigation Says Iran Has Been Covering Up Covid Death Toll.

--Apple Hit With $1.4 Billion Suit Over Siri Patent.

--UN Warns Of Catastrophe Due To Virus School Closings.

 

A child shall lead us. Yes, we in older age groups are doomed. It has just been announced that 50.7% of ten USA population are people 40 and under. Consider the possibilities.

 

Send in your guesses for Joe’s Veep.

 

There is a growing sense that the markets need a pull back. But, if the Gov can get some stopgaps in place, it shouldn’t be a something to worry a bout.

 

A reader notes that with the low math performance of USA schools over the past 40 years, how will they ever get an accurate count of mailed ballots?

 

Yes, our world can get weirder. Illinois officials are calling for the abolishment of history classes in schools until an alternative can be offered that would highlight underrepresented groups. Take away a nations history, and you take away its soul.

 

Deborah Birx deserves to be PO’d.

 

A new hotel just opened here in Historic Newport. It is easily the ugliest new structure I have seen here since the ugly, opportunistic architecture of urban renewal days of the 1960’s. Unfortunately, money trumps taste.

 

The Answer:

Because poetry so often comes from the heart it is actually quite difficult to rank poets objectively. So, here’s a list in no special order, and you can rank them: Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Maya Angelou. Emily Dickinson, Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, E.E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (What, no Robert Browning?) William Blake, Sylvia Plath, WW Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Donne, WB Yeats, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dante Alighieri, T. S Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Milton, Sappho, Homer, Li bai, Jalal al-Din Rumi. this is a consensus 34 greatest list. Pick your favorite.  

 

What happened to Joyce Kilmer?

I think that I shall never see,

A poem as lovely as a tree.

 

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair.

 

Poems are made by fools lie me

But only God can make a tree.

 

Speaking of poems by fools,

from the Tids Poet Laureate:

I think I shall never find,

An audience ever so kind

As a loving daily Tidster;

Whoops! How do you rhyme Tidster?

Of course, you can’t. They have no parallel.

 

Thanks everybody.

 

Are puns for children or groanups?