Today's poem:
Two Items
- by Carl Sandburg
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/822189262019624960/two-items?source=share
#poetry #CarlSandburg #stockholm #remembrance #tenderness #affection #life #community
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"Gotta Travel On" is an American #folksong. The earliest known version was printed in #CarlSandburg's #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to #PaulClayton, #TheWeavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by #PeteSeeger in 1958. A 1958 recording by #BillyGrammer backed by the #AnitaKerr Singers reached #4 on the #USPopChart.
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Surprise! Barack and Michelle Obama greet first visitors to new Chicago center
CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama surprised the first 100 visitors…
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Surprise! Barack and Michelle Obama greet first visitors to new Chicago center
CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama surprised the first 100 visitors…
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https://www.europesays.com/3075101/ Surprise! Barack and Michelle Obama greet first visitors to new Chicago center #america #BarackObama #CarlSandburg #Chicago #ChicagoPublicLibrary #GeneralNews #ILStateWire #illinois #Juneteenth #MauriceSendak #MichelleObama #national #Politics #USNews #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USTopics #USA #USANews
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https://www.europesays.com/news/42715/ Surprise! Barack and Michelle Obama greet first visitors to new Chicago center #BarackObama #CarlSandburg #Chicago #ChicagoPublicLibrary #GeneralDomesticNews #GeneralNews #Headlines #ILStateWire #Illinois #Juneteenth #MauriceSendak #MichelleObama #News #Politics #TopStories #USNews
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Surprise! Barack and Michelle Obama greet first visitors to new Chicago center
CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama surprised the first 100 visitors…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #BarackObama #CarlSandburg #Chicago #ChicagoPublicLibrary #GeneralDomesticNews #Generalnews #ILStateWire #Illinois #Juneteenth #MauriceSendak #MichelleObama #Politics #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA
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The fog comes
on little cat feet.It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.(Fog, by #CarlSandburg )
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"Sloop John B" (#Roud 15634, originally published as "#TheJohnBSails") is a #BahamianFolkSong from #Nassau. A transcription was published in 1916 by #RichardLeGallienne, and #CarlSandburg included a version in his #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927. There have been many recordings of the song since the early 1950s, with variant titles including "I Want to Go Home" and "Wreck of the John B". In 1966.
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The chairs come
on little cat feet.~ Carl Sandburg (probably)
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"Gotta Travel On" is an American #folksong. The earliest known version was printed in #CarlSandburg's #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to #PaulClayton, #TheWeavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by #PeteSeeger in 1958. A 1958 recording by #BillyGrammer backed by the #AnitaKerr Singers reached #4 on the #USPopChart.
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"Gotta Travel On" is an American #folksong. The earliest known version was printed in #CarlSandburg's #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to #PaulClayton, #TheWeavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by #PeteSeeger in 1958. A 1958 recording by #BillyGrammer backed by the #AnitaKerr Singers reached #4 on the #USPopChart.
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A judge’s decision to read a 111-yr-old poem in court before curbing federal agents’ #UseOfForce in #Chicago has brought fresh relevance to an iconic piece of local #literature.
In a ruling addressing actions by federal #immigration agents, US District Judge #SaraEllis last week recited #CarlSandburg’s 1914 composition “Chicago,” known for praising the town’s working-class roots & coining the “City of the Big Shoulders” moniker.
#Trump #law #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism
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#CarlSandburg ‘#Chicago’ #poem finds fresh relevance in a city occupied by #ICE
Known for praising the city with “big shoulders,” the beloved 1914 composition recently was recited in a ruling addressing federal #immigration agents’ #UseOfForce. Literary scholars say they were “astounded” & “amazed.”
#Trump #law #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/11/carl-sandburg-chicago-poem-operation-midway-blitz-deportation-campaign-judge-sara-ellis -
“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.”
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Celebrating Halloween with Carl Sandburg
Happy Halloween!
Why do we love Halloween? Maybe it’s the thrill of shadows, the whispered stories of ghosts and goblins, or the sheer joy of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary with costumes, pumpkins, and flickering candles. Halloween is a night where imagination takes the lead — where even the wind seems to carry secrets.
Tonight, I’m celebrating Halloween with Carl Sandburg, who had a gift for finding poetry in the everyday. His short poem, Theme in Yellow, doesn’t dwell on fright or fear. Instead, he turns to the pumpkin — that bright, round companion of autumn — and gives it a mischievous voice. The jack-o’-lantern smiles with a glow that is equal parts harvest warmth and playful trickery.
Sandburg’s images — yellow balls on the hills, orange and tawny gold in the cornfields, the harvest moon rising — remind us that Halloween isn’t just about spooks and scares. It’s also about autumn’s abundance, the laughter of children, and the community that gathers around the simple magic of light in the dark.
So when you see a pumpkin glowing on a porch tonight, think of Sandburg’s words, and know that you are part of a tradition that stretches across fields, front steps, and generations.
https://youtu.be/f2egByr2m8I?si=kkxQkBXSHufU6YSL
Theme in Yellow
by Carl Sandburg
I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o’-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.As October draws to a close, I am reminded that Halloween is more than a night of costumes and candy. It is a pause at the threshold between seasons — a moment when the glow of a pumpkin lantern can carry us back to the wonder of childhood and forward into the quiet of November.
Carl Sandburg’s Theme in Yellow shows me that even in the simplest of images — a smiling jack-o’-lantern, a harvest moon — there is both playfulness and grace. This Halloween, I celebrate not only the mysteries of the night, but also the gift of imagination that lets us find light, even in the gathering dark.
Thank you for joining me in celebrating Halloween with Carl Sandburg. Until next time we meet, keep reading and reciting poetry.
Rebecca
Celebrating Halloween with Carl Sandburg – Rebecca's Reading Room
#CarlSandburg #HappyHalloween #PoetryInTheEvening #RebeccaSReadingRoom #ThemeInYellow
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In my latest blog post you can read Carl Sandburg’s Halloween-themed poem “Theme in Yellow,” and do a simple vocabulary exercise.
It's a playful, festive, and wonderfully evocative poem - unusually written from the perspective of a pumpkin! If you love this time of year as much as I do, I’m sure you’ll enjoy “Theme in Yellow!”
https://grammaticus.blog/2025/10/29/theme-in-yellow/
#poem #poetry #learningenglish #englishvocabulary #englishteacher #americanliterature #Halloween #carlsandburg
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A quotation from Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet, biographer
(Attributed)More info about this quote: wist.info/sandburg-carl/79972/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsandburg #autonomy #lifespan #lifetime #selfcontrol #selfdirection #time #value #passageoftime #independence
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"Gotta Travel On" is an American #folksong. The earliest known version was printed in #CarlSandburg's #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to #PaulClayton, #TheWeavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by #PeteSeeger in 1958. A 1958 recording by #BillyGrammer backed by the #AnitaKerr Singers reached #4 on the #USPopChart.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
-- Carl Sandburg⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CarlSandburg #Religion
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Today's poem:
Chicago
- by Carl Sandburghttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/782700049964679168/chicago?source=share
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
-- Carl Sandburg⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CarlSandburg #Religion
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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One of my favourite Halloween poems, Carl Sandburg, Theme in Yellow https://poets.org/poem/theme-yellow
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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Today's poem:
From “The Windy City”
- by Carl Sandburghttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/758414139391655936/from-the-windy-city?source=share
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I'm rebuilding my #rare #book #eBay store this summer, one book a day over the next three months. Today, a #1stPrinting of #CarlSandburg's 1953 #AlwaysTheYoungStrangers, an autobiographical novel about his Victorian-Age youth in Galesburg, Illinois, and the first book he published after winning the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. Just $30 or your best offer! https://www.ebay.com/itm/156254836257
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Favourite Halloween poems
Carl Sandburg, 'Theme in Yellow'
'I am a jack-o'-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.'I love how this poem manages to be playful and little bit sinister.
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Fog
BY CARL SANDBURG
The fog comes
on little cat feet.It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.#fog #sanfrancisco #carlsandburg #caturday #heatwave #climatechange #heatdome #sfba #feet
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Got a leg up on #ArborDay & put a fig tree in the backyard. Because he's a #Chicago Hardy, his name is Carl (after #CarlSandburg). Hence, he can channel some big shoulders energy and spread out. And any time the #JohnDenver "Plant a Tree" song that haunted my childhood comes into my head, I'll lob back the hard-won determination of Sandburg's "The Road and the End," emphasizing
"Where tall trees flank the way
And shoulder toward the sky."(And yes, I *am* a huge dork.)
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#January 6, 1878
#OTD #CarlSandburg, American #Poet & #Writer, is born.His Galesburg, Illinois, birthplace has a #Garden & a boulder marking his remains.
Plain-spoken & direct, Carl wrote an American #Fairytale book called #Rootabaga Stories in which he wrote,
"Life is like an #Onion.
You peel it off one layer at a time, & sometimes you #Weep."His #Poem, Accomplished Facts, begins:
"Every year #EmilyDickinson sent one friend
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UNELMIA ILTAHÄMÄRÄSSÄ
Carl Sandburg(1878-1967)https://satruno.blogspot.com/2020/02/unelmia-iltahamarassa-carl-sandburg.html
#CarlSandburg #Kirjallisuus #Käännöskirjallisuus #Käännösruno #Käännösrunous #Lyriikka #Runo #Runoja #Runosuomennos #Runokäännöksiä #Runokäännös #Runot #Runous #Runoutta #Suomennos #YhdysvaltainKirjallisuus
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ASHURNATSIRPAL III
(Babylonialaisesta savitaulusta, 4000 vuotta ennen Kristusta)Carl Sandburg(1878-1967)
https://satruno.blogspot.com/2019/07/ashurnatsirpal-iii-babylonialaisesta.html
#CarlSandburg #Käännösrunous #Lyriikka #Runo #Runoja #Runosuomennos #Runokäännöksiä #Runokäännös #Runot #Runous #Suomennos #YhdysvaltainKirjallisuus -
SFINKSI
Carl Sandburg(1878-1967)https://satruno.blogspot.com/2018/12/sfinksi-carl-sandburg-1878-1967.html
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BLUE RIDGE
Carl Sandburg(1878-1967)https://satruno.blogspot.com/2020/07/blue-ridge-carl-sandburg-1878-1967.html
#CarlSandburg #Kirjallisuus #Käännöskirjallisuus #Käännösruno #Käännösrunous #Lyriikka #Runo #Runoja #Runosuomennos #Runokäännöksiä #Runokäännös #Runot #Runous #Runoutta #Suomennos #YhdysvaltainKirjallisuus
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It's fascinating how awestruck with #GPTChat many people seem to be. I decided to see what it could do in #writing in the #style of a well known author…here the #poet #CarlSandburg. I am not overly impressed: Notice GPTChat plagiarized the first line of the original — indicating that this is merely a composition of its training data and not particularly original in any sense. I tried with other styles/authors and the result were very similar, if not direct copies, clearly snippets of other work
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The #moon over Princeton right now.
“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.” #CarlSandburg #poetry #autumn
