Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
A December Day, by J.A. Kerr

Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
The day is dull, the landscape drear;
On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html

#pennyspoems

George J. Dance wrote:
>
> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr

> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
> The day is dull, the landscape drear;
> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
> While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
> [...]
> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html

> #pennyspoems

Good morning, George, looks like a winner.

Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.

HTH and HAND.

On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>
>> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>>      The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>>      While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>> [...]
>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>
>> #pennyspoems
>
> Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>
> Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>
> HTH and HAND.

Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
only poems he ever published.

And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
https://discoverpoetry.com/

The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
for me.

Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.

Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
that site.
https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
A December Day, by J.A. Kerr

Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
The day is dull, the landscape drear;
On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-december-day-ja-kerr.html
>
> #pennyspoems

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>>
>>> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>>>      The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>>> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>>>      While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>>> [...]
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>>
>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>> Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>>
>> Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>>
>> HTH and HAND.

> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
> only poems he ever published.

> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
> https://discoverpoetry.com/

> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
> for me.

> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.

> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
> that site.
> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

Thanks again for the information, George.

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>>
>>> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>>>      The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>>> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>>>      While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>>> [...]
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>>
>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>> Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>>
>> Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>>
>> HTH and HAND.

> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
> only poems he ever published.

> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
> https://discoverpoetry.com/

> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
> for me.

> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.

> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
> that site.
> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

I can dig it....

On Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 11:46:21 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
> > George J. Dance wrote:
> >>
> >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> >> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
> >
> >> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
> >> The day is dull, the landscape drear;
> >> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
> >> While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
> >> [...]
> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
> >
> >> #pennyspoems
> >
> > Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
> >
> > Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
> >
> > HTH and HAND.
> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
> only poems he ever published.
>
> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
> https://discoverpoetry.com/
>
> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
> for me.
>
> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.
>
> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
> that site.
> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

G.D. here is a local poet who would probably like to contribute to your BLOG... Scott Antley...

https://allpoetry.com/Scott_Antley_aka_exile

Zod wrote:

> On Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 11:46:21 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>> > George J. Dance wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> >> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>> >
>> >> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>> >> The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>> >> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>> >> While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>> >> [...]
>> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>> >
>> >> #pennyspoems
>> >
>> > Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>> >
>> > Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>> >
>> > HTH and HAND.
>> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
>> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
>> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
>> only poems he ever published.
>>
>> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
>> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
>> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
>> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
>> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
>> https://discoverpoetry.com/
>>
>> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
>> for me.
>>
>> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
>> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
>> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
>> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.
>>
>> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
>> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
>> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
>> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
>> that site.
>> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

> G.D. here is a local poet who would probably like to contribute to your BLOG... Scott Antley...

> https://allpoetry.com/Scott_Antley_aka_exile

I've known Scott since the 1990s, good guy, good poet.

Will Dockery wrote:

> Zod wrote:

>> On Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 11:46:21 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>>> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>>> > George J. Dance wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>> >> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>>> >
>>> >> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>>> >> The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>>> >> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>>> >> While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>>> >> [...]
>>> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>>> >
>>> >> #pennyspoems
>>> >
>>> > Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>>> >
>>> > Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>>> >
>>> > HTH and HAND.
>>> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
>>> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
>>> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
>>> only poems he ever published.
>>>
>>> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
>>> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
>>> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
>>> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
>>> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
>>> https://discoverpoetry.com/
>>>
>>> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
>>> for me.
>>>
>>> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
>>> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
>>> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
>>> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.
>>>
>>> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
>>> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
>>> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
>>> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
>>> that site.
>>> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

>> G.D. here is a local poet who would probably like to contribute to your BLOG... Scott Antley...

>> https://allpoetry.com/Scott_Antley_aka_exile

> I've known Scott since the 1990s, good guy, good poet.

Seems to be....

General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> Zod wrote:

>>> On Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 11:46:21 AM UTC-5, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>>>> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>>>> > George J. Dance wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>> >> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>>>> >
>>>> >> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>>>> >> The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>>>> >> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>>>> >> While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>>>> >> [...]
>>>> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>>>> >
>>>> >> #pennyspoems
>>>> >
>>>> > Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>>>> >
>>>> > Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>>>> >
>>>> > HTH and HAND.
>>>> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
>>>> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
>>>> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
>>>> only poems he ever published.
>>>>
>>>> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
>>>> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
>>>> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
>>>> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
>>>> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
>>>> https://discoverpoetry.com/
>>>>
>>>> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
>>>> for me.
>>>>
>>>> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
>>>> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
>>>> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
>>>> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.
>>>>
>>>> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
>>>> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
>>>> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
>>>> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
>>>> that site.
>>>> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

>>> G.D. here is a local poet who would probably like to contribute to your BLOG... Scott Antley...

>>> https://allpoetry.com/Scott_Antley_aka_exile

>> I've known Scott since the 1990s, good guy, good poet.

> Seems to be....

Yes.

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>>
>>> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>>>      The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>>> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>>>      While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>>> [...]
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>>
>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>> Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>>
>> Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>>
>> HTH and HAND.

> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
> only poems he ever published.

> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
> https://discoverpoetry.com/

> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
> for me.

> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.

> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
> that site.
> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

I'm a new fan of Robert F. Skillings.

🙂

Will Dockery wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:

>> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>>>
>>>> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>>>>      The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>>>> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>>>>      While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>>>> [...]
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>>>
>>>> #pennyspoems
>>>
>>> Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>>>
>>> Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>>>
>>> HTH and HAND.

>> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
>> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
>> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
>> only poems he ever published.

>> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
>> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
>> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
>> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
>> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
>> https://discoverpoetry.com/

>> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
>> for me.

>> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
>> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
>> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
>> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.

>> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
>> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
>> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
>> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
>> that site.
>> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

> I'm a new fan of Robert F. Skillings.

> 🙂

Count me in on that as well...!

General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> George J. Dance wrote:

>>> On 2022-12-17 10:28 a.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>>> A December Day, by J.A. Kerr
>>>>
>>>>> Low-drifting clouds o'erspread the sky;
>>>>>      The day is dull, the landscape drear;
>>>>> On earth's fair bosom snowflakes lie,
>>>>>      While trees their snow-clad branches rear.
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/december-thomas-bailey-aldrich.html
>>>>
>>>>> #pennyspoems
>>>>
>>>> Good morning, George, looks like a winner.
>>>>
>>>> Great to see you continue to bring these poets out of obscurity.
>>>>
>>>> HTH and HAND.

>>> Kerr is still pretty obscure to me. For now, I don't even have his
>>> important dates, marital status. AFAIK, this and another poem in an 1890
>>> vanity press anthology, /Local and National Poets of America/, are the
>>> only poems he ever published.

>>> And I can't take the credit for lifting him out of obscurity; if
>>> anything, I'm only helping a bit. The major credit belongs to a new
>>> poetry site, Discover Poetry, that I've ... discovered. It's very much a
>>> publish-anything site like PoemHunder, Poetry Nook, or AllPoetry, but
>>> unlike those and their clones it's building up a unique selection.
>>> https://discoverpoetry.com/

>>> The site also organizes the poems by month, which is quite convenient
>>> for me.

>>> Since Robert F. Skillings also appeared in that 1890 vanity project, and
>>> I also found him on the Discover Poetry site, I'd conjecture that
>>> whoever's behind the site has been reading that anthology (or the later
>>> edition NG found) and choosing poems from it.

>>> Another site that's helped raise Kerr's profile a bit is Strangers to Us
>>> All, a database of poet/lawyers set up by James R. Elkins at the West
>>> virgina U. College of Law and maintained on Lawlit. I got the
>>> biographical material that I used to open a wiki article on Kerr from
>>> that site.
>>> https://lawlit.net/lp-2001/intro/index.html

>> I'm a new fan of Robert F. Skillings.

>>

> Count me in on that as well...!

NancyGene is a fan of Stillings and Dunne... of London, Ireland.

🙂