PWB Peeps: Toosdai Evening: Srs Ogden Nash (and Other) Poetry for Today, September 24, Illustrated!

Welp, it is Toosdai and so it is the day for some srs mischiefery with a mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)! Let’s see what today is and if we have Ogden’s poetry to cover it… Googles… we do! And also others! This post is an Open Thread, so please feel free to discuss and to post your favorite illustrated pomes in the Comments also too!

So tonight, we will again explore some of today’s holidays:

Today is Innergize Day

Innergize Day on the day after the Autumnal Equinox offers an opportunity to relax and rejuvenate. This is a day for you!
Since fall has officially arrived, it’s time to shift gears. The fast-pace of summer activities passes by now. Languid autumn days provide tranquil sunsets and peaceful sunsets. These are the times to focus on your personal well-being. Do things you enjoy that make you feel good about yourself. Let stress and worry fade away for the day.

[Hopefully your conscience is not too clean!]

a clean conscience never relaxes

by Ogden Nash

There is an emotion to which we are most of us are adduced,
But it is one which I refuse to boost.
It is harrowing, browbeating, and brutal,
Besides which it is futile.
Because of it sleepy men go sleepless.
Because of it, for all I know lyrical canaries and nightingales go peepless;

Hungry men lose their appetites;
Warm acrobats perspire coldly in their dapper tights;
Eligible bachelors enter ballrooms less eligibly,
And stoics talk to themselves loudly and fortunately also unintelligibly.
Land of Goshen,
What an easily dispensible emotion!
I am referring, of course,
To remorse.
-snip-
So the truth is that as far as improving the world its concerned, remorse is a duffer,
Because the wrong people suffer,
Because the very fact that they suffer from remorse proves they are innocuous.
Yes, indeed, it is the man remorse passes over completely who is the virulent streptococcuous.

(Seems Ogden knew a *Rump type!)

BunnyshamingAlanreuseFlickrNinaChildish7853931884_94143ed089_b.jpg — This is Alan. He has rabbit remorse.

Today is National Voter Registration Day!

Vote, vote, vote

by Gajanan Mishra of Odisha, India

(Biography here, “Nature is the Guru, the mentor.”)

Vote, vote, vote
Caste your vote.
Ask not the worth
Of a vote.

Winning and losing
Is not a matter
It is whether you are
All with us or not.

We are all one
And hence we have
Struggled for suffrage
Universal suffrage.

And it is our freedom,
It is the way to own kingdom.

Who else can you encourage to register to vote? All the info you need is at National Voter Registration Day dot Org!

Registration deadlines will be coming before you know it!

Today is National Cherries Jubilee Day

Cherry-time

by Robert Graves of London, England, 1895-1985

(Biography here, “He was not liked by his peers in school, nor did he care much for them.”)

Cherries of the night are riper
Than the cherries pluckt at noon
Gather to your fairy piper
When he pipes his magic tune:
    Merry, merry,
    Take a cherry;
    Mine are sounder,
    Mine are rounder,
    Mine are sweeter
    For the eater
    Under the moon.
And you’ll be fairies soon.

FirefliesinForestreusePixabayforest-of-magic-3873713_960_720.jpg — Fireflies or fairies? You decide!

In the cherry pluckt at night,
With the dew of summer swelling,
There’s a juice of pure delight,
Cool, dark, sweet, divinely smelling.
    Merry, merry,
    Take a cherry;
    Mine are sounder,
    Mine are rounder,
    Mine are sweeter
    For the eater
    In the moonlight.
And you’ll be fairies quite.

ITALY / Sicily / Taormina / Frutta martorana ( traditional marzipan sweets ) the dog Pecorino and cherries made from marzipan ..© Toni Anzenberger / Anzenberger — Delightful cherries! (Do not really give your woozle cherries)

And of Course, Today Now is National Impeachment Day

Heh!

Cat_Trump_Cartoon_reuse_Pinterest_0dc5b9b7d193388d344099e332394b13.gif — “I did not do it. Whatever it is.”

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Finally, if you are missing previous Illustrated poetery, pleez feel free to visit! If you haven’t read them, they’re still amewsing!:

The Serious Poetry of Ogden Nash, Illustrated!

More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!

Still More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!

Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!

Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!

Yet Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!

And Yet Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!

Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!

Still Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!

Still More Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!