"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful. At the same
time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel
called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.
Carl Sandburg, an American poet and biographer, was born in 1878 in
Galesburg, Illinois.
His biography of Abraham Lincoln, which took him twenty years of research
and writing, was originally published in two parts, The Prairie Years and
The War Years. It was for The War Years that he was awarded the Pulitzer
history prize in 1940.
He was also a collector of American folk songs and he frequently toured
the country, giving recitals of his poems and singing the little-known folk
songs he collected. The American Songbag, a collection of these songs with
his comments, was published in 1927. Sandburg died in 1967.
For today I’ve chosen this poem by Carl Sandburg:
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then, moves on.
For a large collection of poems and stories, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/poetrydir.html
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