A Note from Anthony - A Flood of Articles

I just wanted to let all of my readers know that I will be placing a large number of articles onto this blog in a relatively short amount of time.  I am taking this step because I have to transition all of my Y!CN articles over to the blog before Y!CN shuts down for good on July 31.  I apologize in advance if that causes anyone any inconvenience (eg. your new blog postings list grows exponentially in the span of a few hours).

Once I have transferred all of the Y!CN articles to this blog, I plan to place them into categories.  As such, you should be able to quickly find articles by topic if you click on the 'Label' section under the blog header. Additionally, I will posit a year in the title of my dated articles (eg. a news article from 2012).  If you are interested in reviewing information from that year (eg. for a paper, history piece, etc.), feel free to click on those articles.  Just keep in mind that the information in these documents pertains to the year listed in the title (or at least most of it does anyway).  One exception to this rule, a good portion of the information in my article on rare calendar dates (not yet posted here) is still relevant.

As always, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me.

-- Anthony Hopper

#blogging #blog #Y!CN

Haiku about Memories and Disturbed Ponds

Bittersweet Memories

A gentle wind moves
A tear down a wrinkled cheek
An old man recalls

Tears (1)

A Pond Disturbed by a Pebble

Quiet, tranquil pond
A pebble pierces the blue
A maelstrom, short lived

Memories - Good and Bad

Memories are chains
That bind--Yet also strong mead
That can set us free


Credit: Ray Nata
Title: Miedo-Ajeno
Date: November 28, 2008

The author has released the work into the public domain, per his/her note on Wikimedia (see link in title).

-- Anthony Hopper

#haiku #poetry #nature #mind

Haiku about Baseball, Beads of Water, and Butterflies

I have written a number of haiku over the last few years.  Here are three of these poems.

Haiku #1: A Baseball Moment

The crowd goes silent
The ball flies into the sun

Heliconius Charithonius (1)

A fielder prepares

Haiku #2: Beads of Water on a Leaf

Small beads of water
Tense! Waiting to trickle down
A pink leaf holds them

Haiku #3: Butterflies Take flight

Tranquil-no wind
Sun's warmth, the only caress
Butterflies take flight

-- Anthony Hopper

#poetry #poems #haiku #nature #butterflies #baseball #sports #weather

(1) Credit: Adrian Pingstone
      Title: Heliconius Charithonius
      Copyright: September 2005 - in Wikimedia Commons. The author has released the image into the
                         public domain via a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (see linked title for
                         photo).

Haiku about Clouds, Cairns, Seasons, and Birds

I penned these three haiku in December 2012.  I hope you enjoy perusing these poems.

Haiku #1: Clouds and Cairns

A soft wind moves clouds

Red-winged blackbirds flying into the sunset (1)

An ancient cairn lay untouched
Young mice scurry past

Haiku #2: Of Time and Seasons

Fields of brilliant green
A moment's passing of time
Shades of brown surround

Haiku #3: Birds in Flight near Sunset

The quiet broken!
A mad dash as birds take flight
Into the sunset

-- Anthony Hopper

#poetry #haiku #poems #poem #seasons #nature #birds

(1) Credit: Jerry Segraves
      Title: Blackbirds - Sunset
      Copyright: April 25, 2006 - in Wikimedia Commons. The author has released the image into the public
                         domain per his notes in Wikimedia Commons.