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Tag Archives: poetry
There’s No Such Thing As A Free Innis #poetry #poem #wbyeats
Continuing my rewriting of the nation’s favourite poems, today we corrupt W.B. Yeats’ bit of fluff The Lake Isle Of Innisfree. Here’s a link to the original if you’re unfamiliar with it (lucky you). I almost studied this for my … Continue reading
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
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
