Welcome
Welcome to my new look website. I intend to post my thoughts here, initially repeating the Poet’s Day posts from my Facebook account.
Nine and Sixty Ways
It was National Poetry Day yesterday, so this week’s choice is (partly) about a poet. It’s “In the Neolithic Age” by Rudyard Kipling.
Like the Wolf on the Fold
This week’s choice is inspired by the story of Sennacherib which I have been listening to on the audiobook version of “A History of the World in 100 Objects”.
Swimming Along
This week’s choice is “A Shropshire Lad” by John Betjeman which I have chosen from a book of Betjeman’s collected poetry.
This Quite Fantastic Person
This week’s choice is taken from “A Year of Scottish Poems” edited by Gaby Morgan, and it is Diana Hendry’s “Hiding Places”.
The Common Fate of All
This week’s choice is “The Rainy Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and my reasons for choosing it are probably obvious to everyone!
Out On The Road
I have chosen this week’s poem for Rachel’s youngest son William. He is a great traveller and has recently been training in Tewkesbury so “Tewkesbury Road” by John Masefield seems appropriate.
Panky-Doodle Ker-Chuggetty-Chug!
Another anonymous choice this week: a nonsense poem called “To Marie”.
A Foaming Sea Brimful of Ale
As another birthday rolls around, I find myself choosing a poem that is something of a mystery, called simply “Ambiguous Lines” by an unknown hand.
The Blade of Love
This week’s choice is the song “A Night in Summer Long Ago” by Mark Knopfler.