Red, Like Living Flame
This week’s choice is another that was prompted by Jesse Gilbert. It is “The White Ships and the Red” by Joyce Kilmer.
Those Who Favour Fire
Another Jesse Gilbert-inspired choice this week: Robert Frost’s short poem “Fire and Ice”.
Sweet Flowers
This week’s choice marks Mothering Sunday (or Mothers’ Day) and it is “To My Mother” by Christina Rossetti.
Footprints on the Sands of Time
This week’s choice is A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and it is one of the poems performed by Jesse Gillespie who I mentioned last week.
Stinging, Ringing Spindrift
This week’s poem is “The Last Chantey” by Rudyard Kipling. I have chosen it because it’s one of my favourites.
Bad Publicity
This week’s choice is “Not My Best Side” by U.A. Fanthorpe, which I have chosen to mark a visit to London and a viewing of the painting on which the poem comments.
Warm-lit For My Love and Me
This week’s choice is also by E. Nesbit, and it’s “St. Valentine’s Day.” I have chosen it for my lovely Rachel, for her daughter Emily and her fiancé Forrest who have just booked their wedding date and venue and for Andy & Tracey, friends who recently announced their engagement.
Bleak, Keen and Drear
This week’s choice is Winter by E. Nesbit which carries a double meaning.
And There Was No One Left
This week’s poem is chosen to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. It is ‘First They Came’ by Pastor Martin Niemöller.
The Man O’ Independent Mind
This week’s poem marks Burns Night, and it is Robert Burns’s “A Man’s a Man for a’ That”.