Thursday, June 12, 2025

The Silver Apples of the Moon

 THE SILVER APPLES OF THE MOON


Ray Bradbury loved poetry.

You can tell by his titles.

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"I Sing The Body Electric."

Walt Whitman sang that song

Long, long ago.

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"A Miracle of Rare Device."

Where did he get that?

Kubla Khan knew.

Or, rather, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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"There Will Come Soft Rains."

Thank you, Sara Teasdale.

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"The Golden Apples of the sun."

The search of Wandering Aengus,

That is, Yeats.

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If you would steal,

Steal from the best.

So I, too, lift from Yeats

A line Ray overlept

To reach his own.


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