The True Gift Never Leaves
This week’s poem is chosen for friends who have welcomed a new baby into their family this week and for someone special to me who works with new mothers and mothers-to-be.
Desperately Uncontrollably Happy
This week’s choice is the song “In Pursuit of Happiness” by The Divine Comedy and it marks a significant positive change in my personal happiness.
In Picardy It Was
This week’s poem is “Gethsemane” by Rudyard Kipling and I have chosen it to mark Remembrance Day.
Forethought of Grief
This week’s choice is short but good and it is “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry.
Something Moves in the Fern
For this Hallowe’en season, I have chosen a poem by my favourite ghost story writer, M.R. James: “Living Night”, also known as “The Livermere Poem”
Per Gallon, Per Second, Per Squirt
I originally chose another poem for this week, but “The ‘Ole in the Ark” by Marriott Edgar seems a lot more appropriate as Storm Babet continues to flood the country.
Will It Alter My Life Altogether?
My dear stepson Tom proposed to Charl this week and she said “yes”, so this week’s theme has to be love so I have chosen “Tell Me the Truth About Love” by W.H. Auden.
A Salt-Atlantic Chanty
This week’s choice is “A Valediction” by John Masefield which I chose from a book of his verse I found at Barter Books in Alnwick.
Lightning’s Danger
This week’s poem is “The Pylons” by Stephen Spender, which I have chosen for my brother-in-law Colin, whose birthday falls this week.