{"id":4935,"date":"2024-04-30T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T19:57:46","slug":"one-hundred-year-poetry-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4935","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Year Poetry Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! I won honorable mention again in the Friends of the West Roxbury Library poetry contest! I&#8217;m happy.\u00a0 The theme was &#8220;wonder&#8221; and I spied a bust of Shakespeare that inspired the poem. (see bottom of page)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>One Hundred Year Celebration<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I wonder what<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>the Bard is thinking<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>surveying the library<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>for lovers of verse<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>from his perch<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>placed by the West Roxbury Shakespeare Classes<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>in 1924<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I wonder what<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>the Bard is thinking<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>hearing the joy of our contest<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>of our odes and sonnets and sestinas<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>as we work and play with words<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8217;till poems comes forth<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>in 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright 2024 Christopher Donahue<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4936\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240224_133228-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240224_133228-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240224_133228.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> inscription\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4937\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/556809-14429202992-4085083216-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/556809-14429202992-4085083216-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/556809-14429202992-4085083216-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/556809-14429202992-4085083216-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/556809-14429202992-4085083216-1158x1536.jpg 1158w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/556809-14429202992-4085083216.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/> the Bard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! I won honorable mention again in the Friends of the West Roxbury Library poetry contest! I&#8217;m happy.\u00a0 The theme was &#8220;wonder&#8221; and I spied a bust of Shakespeare that inspired the poem. 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