April Fools Us
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
May never was the month of love,
For May is full of flowers;
But rather April, wet by kind,
For love is full of showers.
Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1890-1957)
Is there another month that elicits such diverse opinions as does April?
Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
May never was the month of love,
For May is full of flowers;
But rather April, wet by kind,
For love is full of showers.
Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1890-1957)
Is there another month that elicits such diverse opinions as does April?
posted by marguerite louise at
8:21 AM
2 Comments:
Speaking of April Fool pranks and hoaxes, this one was reported on the evening news Friday night. Being Swiss, you might enjoy it.
The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
Maybe this is also the way to get string cheese for the spaghetti??? :D
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Anonymous, at 4/02/2006 11:26 AM
A beautiful month that holds TAX DAY! Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum...
Loved the "April" poetry!
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Anonymous, at 4/02/2006 1:25 PM
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