Perfecting a feeling in language

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It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> – Carol Ann Duffy</span></div><div class="qt452458" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born on this date in 1955, Duffy is Poet Laureate of Great Britain (since 2009) and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Named an Honorary Fellow of the British Society in 2015, she has won numerous writing awards both in Great Britain and internationally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">     </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ucu6XSkTO68..." imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ucu6XSkTO6..." /></a>     Among her award-winning works are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Selling Manhattan</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Christmas Truce</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The 12 Poems of Christmas</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>For Saturday’s Poem, here is Duffy’s, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: .5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">     </span>Christmas Eve</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Time was slow snow sieving the night,<br />a kind of love from the blurred moon;<br />your small town swooning, unabashed,<br />was Winter's own.<br /><br />Snow was the mind of Time, sifting<br />itself, drafting the old year's end.<br />You wrote your name on the window-pane<br />with your young hand.<br /><br />And your wishes went up in smoke,<br />beyond where a streetlamp studied<br />the thoughtful snow on Christmas Eve,<br />beyond belief,<br /><br />as Time, snow, darkness, child, kindled.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Downstairs, the ritual lighting of the candles</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">.</span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: right 6.0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Share A Writer’s Moment with a friend by clicking the g+1 button below</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></div><div class="qt452458" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>