Re: PPB: June / Folgore de San Geminiano

> George J. Dance wrote:
> 
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>> 
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>> 
>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Sunday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>> June, by Folgore de San Geminiano
>>>> 
>>>> And lemons, citrons, dates, and oranges,
>>>> And all the fruits whose savour is most rare,
>>>> Shall shine within the shadow of your trees;
>>>> And every one shall be a lover there
>>>> {...]
>>>> 
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2025/06/june-folgore-de-san-geminiano.html
>>>> 
>>>> View the attachments for this post at:
>>>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=691744457#691744457
>>>> 
>>>> This is a response to the post seen at:
>>>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=691744415#691744415
>>>> 
>>>> Another great find of another great obscure poet, obscure to me, at
>>>> least.
>>>> 
>>>> 🙂
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Folgore is definitely obscure. He was an Italian poet from Dante's time,
>>> a knight by profession who of course never published anything, and of
>>> whom only 32 sonnets are known today. IIRC I learned of him while
>>> working on the bio of the other Dante, Rossetti, who translated his
>>> sonnets of the month into English and published them in the 19th
>>> century.
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping to do a bit about that obscurity by making him this year's
>>> calendar poet on PPB. I'd already used two of his sonnets - "January" in
>>> 2018 and "February" in 2020 - so this year I started adding his poetry
>>> in March.
>>> 
>>> One thing I'm doing that's been fun so far is to look for an appropriate
>>> medieval illustration for each sonnet.
>> 
>> 
>> Amazing, this thread has continued for over a year, now.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> Even more amazing, the PPB link is still attached, and still works. That's wonderful.



A milestone is coming up quickly on the "Poem for Kathy" thread, only 17 poets away from 1000 posts, which is a really rare event, in fact it almost never happens.

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Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
Poem for Kathy, by Will Dockery

[...]
I can't think of
anything else I should write.
If I try
my emotions explode.

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/02/poem-for-kathy-will-dockery.html
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