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#NationalPoetryDay II

Ode to William Shakespeare.  One of my favorite authors, poets, and creators. Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,     So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

#NationalPoetryDay

Ode to national poetry day. I have a few poets who I really like and who inspired me.  Lord Alfred Tennyson 'Ulysses'. It little profits that an idle king,  By this still hearth, among these barren crags,  Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole  Unequal laws unto a savage race,  That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.  I cannot rest from travel: I will drink  Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd  Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those  That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when  Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades  Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;  For always roaming with a hungry heart  Much have I seen and known; cities of men  And manners, climates, councils, governments,  Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;  And drunk delight of battle with my peers,  Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.  I am a part of all that I have met;  Yet all experience is an

SuperFan Sports Talk: Making the Case for NBA's GOAT

SuperFan Sports Talk: Making the Case for NBA's GOAT : 1960 NBA Most Valuable Player :  Wilt Chamberlain  (37.6/27.0/2.3) Rookie of the Year :  Wilt Chamberlain  (37.6/27.0/2.3) PPG Leader...