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Autumn, A Season Of Foreboding… #keats #poem #poetry
John Keats wrote, frankly, dippy poems with c9mplicated rhyming schemes yet the British public voted ‘Autumn’ as their sixth favourite poem. Autumn. Hmm, mists and mellow fruitfulness, eh? What about drunk wasps on a stinging spree. Or bloody conkers dropping … Continue reading
In Which No Vegetables Were Harmed #poem #poetry #theladyofshallot
To continue my series of poems based on famous first lines, this time I’ve chosen the Nation’s second most favoured poem from the BBC’s poll of ten years or so ago: The Lady Of Shallot by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. If … Continue reading
Blake’s Progress #poem #poetry
In my mini series of poems based on famous first lines I’ve stolen a hymn from Willie Blake, a local resident in East Dulwich back when Peckham was cool and Prime Ministers has problems with Ireland… like now really only … Continue reading
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Fighting Poetry #poem #poetry
Once again I’ve taken a famous first line, spun out a sonnet and come up with this Do not go gentle into that good night, Said his gut, after the tall tattooed prat Began to give him a load of … Continue reading
Cloudy Futures #poem #poetry
Here’s another sonnet based on the first line of a more famous example of the genre from Willie W’s pen.. plus some garden and Dog pics to add a splash of colour to an otherwise grey post I wandered lonely … Continue reading
