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in the rustling of your leaves. a hundred years from today. 2 Phalgun 1302 (13 February 1896) From Chitra (1896) Translated by Ketaki Kushari Dyson. To mark the year 1400 of the Bengali calendar, this translation was read out by the translator at an event in 1993 jointly organized by the Nehru Centre of the High Commission of India in London ...
Jan 14, 2011 · First published in the TLS of January 14, 2011. Turned to the truck. I heard high wind. Whistle the cliffs of flats behind. I went to prop our own door wide. Who spoke of rain, leaned in his truck. Sweep at him like a guillotine. I shouted. He leapt back in time.
Born in Lincolnshire, Alison Brackenbury later moved to Gloucestershire, where she worked in the family metal finishing business. Her eighth collection of poems, Then (2013), in which the poem “Leap Year” appears, draws on a lifetime’s experiences of rural England, its people and customs. It also hints at the threats to that environment’s survival. Brackenbury …
Dec 25, 2019 · The year 1400 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. Year 1400 (MCD) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Introduction 1400
We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of the year.
Feb 29, 2024 · “Leap year is the Gregorian calendar’s way of keeping track of the earth’s annual orbit around the sun. A calendar year is 365 days, while the actual earth orbiting time is closer to 365¼ days.
Jun 19, 2021 · I missed being part of that seminal moment so much, I wrote a year 6 leavers poem. Then, only years later, did I realise where the underlying urge and inspiration came from. I'd chosen to bury the memory: on the last day of my own primary school at #TynselParkes in #Uttoxeter, I was ill. I'd never had a day off but on that one final day, I was ...
