Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The Wondering Minstrels and Ogden Nash
The Wondering Minstrels is a poetry-by-email service run by two of my friends: ZS blogger Abraham Thomas, and ZS reader Martin D'Mello DeMello (sorry, Zem). You sign up to receive a poem a day, with some random trivia and analysis thrown in, for good measure. Since it was set up in 1999, Minstrels has well over 2,000 subscribers, so you should consider being one of them. If nothing else, you will on occasion receive an Ogden Nash poem, which will brighten your day immeasurably, as this one did mine. Here's Nash's "The Hunter", courtesy of the Wondering Minstrels.
The hunter crouches in his blind
'Neath camouflage of every kind
And conjures up a quacking noise
To lend allure to his decoys.
This grown-up man, with pluck and luck
Is hoping to outwit a duck.
-- Ogden Nash
