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.
There Are Only Four Things Certain
This week’s poem is “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” by Rudyard Kipling.
Not Unto Us the Praise
This week’s choice is “Non Nobis Domine” by Rudyard Kipling which I have chosen to mark VE Day.
No Dealings With Diabolus
This week’s choice is Rudyard Kipling’s The Holy War, which draws parallels between John Bunyan’s book and the global situation in 1917.
Children of Your Brain
This week’s choice is by Rudyard Kipling, and it is “The Secret of the Machines” which, although it was written around 1911, makes points that are still valid in today’s technology-driven society.
See How Our Works Endure!
This week’s poem, chosen at short notice, is “Cities and Thrones and Powers” by Rudyard Kipling.
I Forgive Thy Treason
This week’s choice is “Cold Iron” by Rudyard Kipling, a tale that begins with a rebellion and ends in redemption.
Seven Million Whys
This poem is chosen in honour of my nephew Matthew’s birthday which was yesterday. It is another by Rudyard Kipling: “I Keep Six Honest Serving Men”.
The Master of All Good Workmen
I know I’m very late to the party here, but this week’s poem is chosen because of a TV series I’ve recently been catching up on: The Repair Shop.
In Picardy It Was
This week’s poem is “Gethsemane” by Rudyard Kipling and I have chosen it to mark Remembrance Day.