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Saturday poem: Christmas by Leigh Hunt

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The Saturday poem: Christmas by Leigh Hunt

via Books: Poetry | guardian.co.uk by on 12/18/09

by Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

What! do they suppose that every thing has been said

that can be said about any one Christmas thing?

About beef, for instance?

About plum-pudding?

About mince-pie?

About holly?

About ivy?

About rosemary?

About mistletoe?

About Christmas Eve?

About hunt-the-slipper?

About hot cockles?

About blind-man's-buff?

About shoeing-the-wild-mare?

About thread-the-needle?

About he-can-do-little-that-can't-do-this?

About puss-in-the-corner?

About snap-dragon?

About forfeits?

About Miss Smith?

About the bell-man?

About the waits?

About chilblains?

About carols?

About the fire?

About the block on it?

About school-boys?

About their mothers?

About Christmas-boxes?

About turkeys?

About Hogmany?

About goose-pie?

About mumming?

About saluting the apple-trees?

About brawn?

About plum-porridge?

About hobby-horse?

About hoppings?

About wakes?

About "feed-the-dove"?

About hackins?

About yule-doughs?

About going-a-gooding?

About loaf-stealing?

About Julklaps? (Who has exhausted that subject, we should like to know?)

About wad-shooting?

About elder-wine?

About pantomime?

About cards?

About New-Year's Day?

About gifts?

About wassail?

About Twelfth-cake?

About king and queen?

About characters?

About eating too much?

About aldermen?

About the doctor?

About all being in the wrong?

About charity?

About all being in the right?

About faith, hope, and endeavour?

About the greatest plum-pudding for the greatest number?

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Dancers honor poet with a whirl

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Dancers honor poet with a whirl

Google Reader via GlobalPost by Nichole Sobecki, 2/18/09

The Mevlevi religious order founded by the still-trendy poet Rumi celebrates his life 800 years on, with performances by Sufi whirling dervishes. read more

Lunarosity: Dec issue, submission guidelines

Lunarosity Vol. 8. December 2009, on-line at http://www.zianet.com/lunarosity/, includes poetry by Kyle Hemmings, Christina Hoag, William Stoneberger, Blakeslee Stevens, Sam Silva, Jack Bowman, Charles Frederickson, Merimee Moffitt, Paul Fisher, Donald Levering, Alexander Pollak, Taylor Graham, Karen Douglass, Neal Whitman, Susan Beckett, Kenneth Gurney, Alan Gann, Donal Mahoney, Howie Good, Gabrielle Bryden, Paul Handley, Harry Calhoun, Sergio Ortiz, Duane Locke, C.J. Opperthauser ~ with more poetry to come.  Fiction this issue is by Bob Tomolillo, David Kyea, John Bruce, Janet Yung.

 

Lunarosity is currently seeking submissions for 2010. Current submission needs for next issue: Poetry, five poems maximum, 100 line limit, shorter preferred; Fiction, Flash Fiction only, 300 word limit; no longer accepting essays. New publishing and submission policies as of December 1, 2009: