What is it about a sunset that makes me come over all poetical? It is no mystery to me that nature has inspired some our best-loved poetry: Wordsworth, Frost, Hardy, Coleridge, Keats, Whitman, it is a long list. Here are two of my favourites, and some Spanish sunsets too.
Emily Dickinson’s ‘Bring me the Sunset in a Cup’…
Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning’s flagons up
And say how many Dew,
Tell me how far the morning leaps —
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue! Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Move Eastward Happy Earth’…
Move eastward, happy earth, and leave Yon orange sunset waning slow: From fringes of the faded eve, O, happy planet, eastward go: Till over thy dark shoulder glow Thy silver sister world, and rise To glass herself in dewey eyes That watch me from the glen below. 5 to remember
poético/a – poetical
delicado/a – delicate
el rocío – dew
el tejedor/la tejedora – the weaver
el planeta – the planet
It’s “el” planeta… coz it’s a Greek word, and all Greek words ending in “a” are masculine in Spanish 🙂
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AND it is a cracking sunset!!! 🙂
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Oh no, thx! SD
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There’s a whole stack of them… tema, systema… that’s all I seem to remember right now 😉
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…but curiously enough, it’s LA polémica… probably because (so I just read) it was introduced into Greek via Latin.
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I’m just the same, I go totally gaga over sunsets. We get some crackers here. Beautiful photos, Sandra 😀
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Thx Lottie! SD
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Beautiful sunsets and poetry 🙂
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It’s difficult to take a bad photo of the sunsets here! SD
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Beautiful photos and beautiful poetry – what a lovely combination, Sandra!
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I felt inspired! SD
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I love Emily Dickinson. Nice post!
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I will admit to reading Dickinson laying a deep bubbly bath! SD
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My favorite is “Hope is a Thing with Feathers”
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What is it about a sunset that makes me come over all poetical?
😉 I don’t know, but it worked. My kinda pretty.
P.S. I read that line umm..
wrong the 1st time.
woops
Ha!
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Why is sunset more evocative than sunrise? Something to do with the end of the day? SD
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Probably, SD 😉 Sun down…
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