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The ninth of May, feeling neither merry nor nuts

Here we are, the ninth of May
It was unseasonably hot today
And the same for two days back
Global warming some might say
A world’s weather out of whack
Yes indeed, it is the ninth of May
Still this mortal coil has hell to pay
Trees lay felled upon the ground
Rich eco systems stripped away
All wildlife fled no hint of sound
We look for joy this ninth of May
Change for good must never stray
A learning curve that cannot stall
This is our endeavour day on day
To build new life beyond the wall.

A McTiernan

Forgotten #09 - The forest beyond the wall, 2015, concrete and real-life flowers and trees. By Shan Hur

9th May, 2018
9-5-2

May is blooming over with beautiful sunny days.

Just another snippet of remarkability the passing of 900 Oracle topics, with 7899 at that very moment of writing mentioned on the home page, and thereby hangs another numerical thread 78-99, which stands a second look.

And our most prolific and much admired Oracle Forum contributor, Packajos000 has leapt past 900 posts, now 902 and counting.



Mailbox On Country Road Tiger Hills Manitoba on canvas designed by Dave Reede

The Merry Month of May in 1923

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VnAAYMAf4s

The Merry Month of May
by Thomas Dekker (1599) [a good year numerically]

O, the month of May, the merry month of May,
So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!
O, and then did I unto my true love say,
Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my Summer's Queen.

Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale,
The sweetest singer in all the forest quire,
Entreats thee, sweet Peggy, to hear thy true love's tale:
Lo, yonder she sitteth, her breast against a brier.

But O, I spy the cuckoo, the cuckoo, the cuckoo;
See where she sitteth; come away, my joy:
Come away, I prithee, I do not like the cuckoo
Should sing where my Peggy and I kiss and toy.

O, the month of May, the merry month of May,
So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green;
And then did I unto my true love say,
Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my Summer's Queen.

Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

His books, plays and pamphlets include: Old Fortunatus (1599), The Gull's Hornbook, The Plague Pamphlets, Lantern and Candlelight, The Shoemakers Holiday, The Roaring Girl, Or Moll Cutpurse, The seven deadly sinnes of London, A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays, Four Birds of Noah's Ark: A Prayer Book from the Time of Shakespeare and The Noble Spanish Soldier