1. Valentine's Day--hope both you and your Valentine (s) are having a great and in a factoid note since St. Valentine was the patron saint of beekeepers enjoy some honey on your toast or in your tea or if freezing in the snow in the East, in your hot buttered rum.
On this day in:
a. 1849 James Polk becomes the first U.S. President to have his photograph taken.
b. 1929 six rivals to Al Capone's gang were killed in the Valentine's Day Massacre.
c. 2005 YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees with its first viral video "Me at the Zoo". Impossible to imagine today a world without YouTube when with it your viral neighbor 10,000 miles away is electronically next door.
Words to
listen to on this Valentine's Day and all of the other days of the year: "Age
does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
Anais Nin, noted author "Life has taught us that love
does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same
direction."- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, noted French aviator, author
and poet.
Please enjoy the 140
character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like
them, retweet and join almost 140 growing followers and please follow
me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my
blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
for an original poem to honor Cupid, just posted; an original poem to honor
Cory Remsburg, and original poem to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Just posted
for your enjoyment on Rhymes
On The Newsworthy Times poems on the Perfect Gift for Valentine’s Day;
Arctic Vortex slamming the U.S.; the freedom of the press taking nose dive;,
weed slowing HIV in monkeys; Obamacare as an albatross for Blues; whimsical
note on Cordova, AK Ice Worm Festival; federal regulations limiting calories in
school lunches while putting on lavish state dinners; Michael Sam declaring
he's gay before the NFL draft; the Beatles' 50 year anniversary of appearing on
the Ed Sullivan; Starbucks barring a disabled Vet and his service dog; a
Harwinton's elementary school banning candy on Valentine's Day to join a great
list of comments on the newsworthy times, in rhyme of course. ©February 14, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
No comments:
Post a Comment