PPB: O Winter! Wilt thou never, never go / David Gray

[George J. (George J. Dance)]

Sunday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
O Winter! Wilt thou never, never go? by David Gray

[...]
Sometimes a winter sunset is a charm —
When the fired clouds, compacted, blaze together,
And the large sun dips, red, behind the hills.
[...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2025/02/o-winter-wilt-thou-never-never-go-david.html

[W.Dockery]

George Dance Feel free to use my photo in a future blog post:

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[George J. (George J. Dance)]

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Thanks, Will. That's a good picture. I'm glad you suggested using it in
the future, as I'm too busy or lazy to go back and change one of the two
pages that I used; but winter sunsets are a recurring theme in
descriptive poetry - I even wrote a poem about a winter sunset myself) -
so I expect I'll have a need for more pictures in the future.

Do you have a page on Wikimedia Commons? It would be a good place to
store your photos, not just ones like this but your historical photos of
Columbus and of you, your band, and fellow local poets. You'd have to
license them, of course, but I think we're on the same wavelength at
this point, where it's more important to have our work seen (and in your
case heard, too) than to make money on it.

[W.Dockery]

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Post by W.Dockery
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Thanks, Will. That's a good picture. I'm glad you suggested using it in
the future, as I'm too busy or lazy to go back and change one of the two
pages that I used; but winter sunsets are a recurring theme in
descriptive poetry - I even wrote a poem about a winter sunset myself) -
so I expect I'll have a need for more pictures in the future.
Do you have a page on Wikimedia Commons? It would be a good place to
store your photos, not just ones like this but your historical photos of
Columbus and of you, your band, and fellow local poets. You'd have to
license them, of course, but I think we're on the same wavelength at
this point, where it's more important to have our work seen (and in your
case heard, too) than to make money on it.

I was once involved with Wikipedia but after too many hassles with them
I left and pretty much haven't been back.

[George J. (George J. Dance)]

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Post by W.Dockery
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Thanks, Will. That's a good picture. I'm glad you suggested using it in
the future, as I'm too busy or lazy to go back and change one of the two
pages that I used; but winter sunsets are a recurring theme in
descriptive poetry - I even wrote a poem about a winter sunset myself) -
so I expect I'll have a need for more pictures in the future.
Do you have a page on Wikimedia Commons? It would be a good place to
store your photos, not just ones like this but your historical photos of
Columbus and of you, your band, and fellow local poets. You'd have to
license them, of course, but I think we're on the same wavelength at
this point, where it's more important to have our work seen (and in your
case heard, too) than to make money on it.

I was once involved with Wikipedia but after too many hassles with them
I left and pretty much haven't been back.

Me, too. The main problem I had was not being allowed to link my blog to
my articles there. Since my whole purpose in writing them was to have
written bios I could link to for all the poets on my wiki, and vice
versa, I thought those links were essential parts of the articles. The
result being that Wikipedia blocked me indefinitely from posting
anything - in effect kicking me out - while keeping all the articles I
had written. Which was the genesis of PPP.

But Wikimedia Commons is different. Though it's owned by the same
foundation, it's controlled by different people; and it's not as
high-traffic, meaning that they're more interested in building up their
inventories than in weeding it, the way Wikipedia is nowadays. There
also aren't the political battles over what writers are allowed to say
on a subject, and the controls (such as needing an editor's approval to
post anything there) that one finds on Wikipedia. Same for Wikisource.

[W.Dockery]

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Post by W.Dockery
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Thanks, Will. That's a good picture. I'm glad you suggested using it in
the future, as I'm too busy or lazy to go back and change one of the two
pages that I used; but winter sunsets are a recurring theme in
descriptive poetry - I even wrote a poem about a winter sunset myself) -
so I expect I'll have a need for more pictures in the future.
Do you have a page on Wikimedia Commons? It would be a good place to
store your photos, not just ones like this but your historical photos of
Columbus and of you, your band, and fellow local poets. You'd have to
license them, of course, but I think we're on the same wavelength at
this point, where it's more important to have our work seen (and in your
case heard, too) than to make money on it.

I was once involved with Wikipedia but after too many hassles with them
I left and pretty much haven't been back.

Me, too. The main problem I had was not being allowed to link my blog to
my articles there. Since my whole purpose in writing them was to have
written bios I could link to for all the poets on my wiki, and vice
versa, I thought those links were essential parts of the articles. The
result being that Wikipedia blocked me indefinitely from posting
anything - in effect kicking me out - while keeping all the articles I
had written. Which was the genesis of PPP.
But Wikimedia Commons is different. Though it's owned by the same
foundation, it's controlled by different people; and it's not as
high-traffic, meaning that they're more interested in building up their
inventories than in weeding it, the way Wikipedia is nowadays. There
also aren't the political battles over what writers are allowed to say
on a subject, and the controls (such as needing an editor's approval to
post anything there) that one finds on Wikipedia. Same for Wikisource.

I haven't been to anything Wikipedia related in perhaps a decade, I need
to reacquaint myself with these places.

I'm going to ask you about the Spanish translation of the WCW poem here,
quickly, as I haven't found the actual discussion yet and I was to get
the material to Antonio a.s.a.p.

Could you possibly make a new post/thread for the translation, that I
can send Antonio the link to quickly and not cluttered with older
comments?

I'd like to get it to him quickly, while our conversation is still fresh
to him.

[W.Dockery]

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Thanks, Will. That's a good picture. I'm glad you suggested using it in
the future, as I'm too busy or lazy to go back and change one of the two
pages that I used; but winter sunsets are a recurring theme in
descriptive poetry - I even wrote a poem about a winter sunset myself) -
so I expect I'll have a need for more pictures in the future.
Do you have a page on Wikimedia Commons? It would be a good place to
store your photos, not just ones like this but your historical photos of
Columbus and of you, your band, and fellow local poets. You'd have to
license them, of course, but I think we're on the same wavelength at
this point, where it's more important to have our work seen (and in your
case heard, too) than to make money on it.

I just checked and I do still have a Wikipedia Commons page, although I
haven't used it in quite a while:

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