William Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in London, where his father was a hosier. He was a poet, painter, visionary mystic, and an engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. He managed to remain extremely poor all his life. He died on August 12, 1827, and was buried in an unmarked grave at the public cemetery of Bunhill Fields
William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Dublin, where his father was a lawyer who then turned into a Pre-Raphaelite painter. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He died on January 28, 1939, at the Hotel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France.
I made a poem up in my sleep. This is important enought to write about, apparently.
The basis of this project is very simple. Every day this year I will write a haiku, without thinking too much about it.A haiku, in case you have forgotten, usually comes in three lines. The first and third lines are five syllables long. The middle line has seven syllables.
While I was in the Bookmark in Charlotte last Saturday I picked up a bargain book that was waiting temptingly at the counter.