Going from Bard to Verse
These posts began in April 2020 following a long discussion about poetry with my cousin Linda who encouraged me to write something about the poems I liked.
I decided to choose three poems every week and write something about each one and post it on Facebook on a Friday. After a year, I found that three at a time was too much, and I reduced it to one at a time.
I called it Poet’s Day; I have a weakness for puns and I enjoyed the double meaning.
I have tried to choose poems that are in the public domain but some modern poems are too good to omit. I intend no challenge to the authors’ copyright in doing this and I hope it is viewed as fair dealing.
Index
2020-2021
- Stand and Wait.
- Carpe Diem.
- The Children’s Hour.
- Love.
- Wooing and Wedding.
- VE Day Commemoration.
- Songs of the Sea.
- To Be Determined.
- Cross Coves.
- Loss and Consolation.
- Desperately Seeking Solace.
- Lightening the Mood.
- Rulers.
- A Load of Old Nonsense.
- Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be.
- Animal Magnetism.
- The Courage of Your Convictions.
- A Song and Dance.
- Playing Favourites.
- Contentment.
- Names and Places.
- Normally Aspired.
- What Dreams May Come.
- A Climatic Moment.
- Gardens.
- Forgive and Forget.
- Autumn.
- The Longest Time.
- A Little Learning.
- On My Own.
- A Measure of Spirits.
- For the Fallen.
- The Boys in the Backroom.
- A Winter’s Tale.
- An Awfully Big Adventure.
- Father Figures.
- Colourful Words.
- Encouragement.
- Yule Never Walk Alone.
- Hope Springs Eternal.
- Immortality.
- Daybreak.
- River Deep.
- Supper Man.
- Hounds Free.
- Pussy Galore.
- Date Night.
- Mother of Mine.
- Friends Like These.
- Hope Springs.
- Stars.
- Riddles.
2021-2022
- Full Circle.
- Frost at Midnight.
- Sigh No More.
- This England.
- The Created Is Not the Creator.
- Merlin’s Isle.
- A Lovely Face.
- Let Us Be True.
- Pilgrim Soul.
- Sad Winds.
- Only the Name.
- Paths of Glory.
- This Frenzy.
- There Was a Ship.
- Water, Water.
- A Sail! A Sail!
- A Wicked Whisper.
- Even in a Dream.
- Close Behind Him.
- All Things Both Great and Small.
- The Lonely Sea and the Sky.
- Silken Lines and Silver Hooks.
- Drunken Pride.
- “Are we nearly there yet?”
- True Love.
- Liquid Gold Is the Air.
- A Fluent Liar.
- Realio, Trulio.
- A Hand to Those in Need.
- Princis, Prelatis and Potestatis.
- A Fiery Furnace Red.
- All My Life and Longer.
- Because Our Fathers Lied.
- Our Fearful Trip.
- Did One But Know!
- See a Little Child.
- The Best of Men.
- A Day Like Any Other.
- Christmas Eve.
- Ring Out, Wild Bells.
- The Web of Years.
- A Cargo of Diamonds.
- One Ring.
- A Fairer-Minded Chap.
- Always There.
- Quick-Eyed Love.
- My Mother’s Knee.
- Death’s Grey Land.
- A Famous Victory.
- Someone.
- The Heart’s Need.
- Well-Heeled Poets.
2022-2023
- Oh, To Be In England.
- So Glad We Agree.
- Feats of Arms.
- Two Hearts Beating.
- No Country For Old Men.
- Your Goo or Bod.
- The Chicken of Hell.
- The Arches of the Years.
- Paying the Dane-geld.
- The Harvest of His Dreams.
- To And Fro.
- In Spite of Everything.
- This Sweet Moment.
- Determined, but Moist.
- Scorching Ordeals.
- The Pearl of Great Price.
- All the Difference.
- Haughty Grandeur.
- Fame is Fleeting as the Wind.
- Harvest Home.
- Come, O Love, Whene’er You May.
- Shadow and Sunlight.
- My Noon, My Midnight, My Talk, My Song.
- Follow This, And Come to Dust.
- Not Cruel, Only Truthful.
- The Wind Still Blows.
- Two Strong Men.
- True to You.
- Fabulous Steeds.
- This Sweet Archaic Song.
- Ye Ugly Witch.
- Sing and Dance Together.
- Salt With Tears.
- Grief’s Surgery.
- The Napoleon of Crime.
- Tuppence Per Person Per Week.
- A Thousand Countenances.
- Searching for the True.
- Nothing Succeeds Like Excess.
- A Cup O’ Kindness.
- The Sobriety of My Youth.
- The Steel of Freedom.
- Stars at Elbow and Foot.
- Cabbages and Kings.
- Happy All His Days.
- you are my world,my true.
- A Host of Golden Daffodils.
- A Necromantic Glass.
- What Will Survive Of Us.
- The Heart’s Desire.
- Shoal! ‘Ware Shoal.
- To Be Together and Talk.
- The Famous Barking Dog Solo.
2023-2024
- A Decent Meal.
- A Mist of Silver Quivering.
- The Days of Wine and Roses.
- I Was Coming to That.
- A Night of Wild Romance.
- All Our Pomp of Yesterday.
- Furnish’d and Burnish’d.
- Something Attempted, Something Done.
- Ambushed by Grief.
- I Was Being Good (Honest).
- The Dead Are At Your Door.
- Living Arrows.
- You’ll Give Us a Turn.
- Hands Have No Tears To Flow.
- Every Dog His Day.
- Our Best Efforts.
- A Tatter of Shadows.
- Shimmering in Broken Water.
- Gold and Fear and Hate.
- Your Letters in the Sand.
- Yours and Yours and Yours.
- Slave to Fate.
- My Fragile Leaves.
- Now What’s All This ‘Ere?
- O Clouds Unfold.
- It All Makes Work.
- Lightning’s Danger.
- A Salt-Atlantic Chanty.
- Will It Alter My Life Altogether?
- Per Gallon, Per Second, Per Squirt.
- Something Moves in the Fern.
- Forethought of Grief.
- In Picardy It Was.
- Desperately Uncontrollably Happy.
- Love Me For Love’s Sake.
- The True Gift Never Leaves.