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Love Poems You Wish You Had Written #1–“Aimless Love,” by Billy Collins
It was two years ago that Suzie Grogan and I played a game of tennis with posts about the love poems we wish we had written, and yet, romantically perhaps, it seems a lifetime ago. Please pardon the cliché! Well, Suzie is at it again on No More Wriggling Out of Writing, and I’m going…
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Love poems you wish you had written 2015 – #1 John Donne
Originally posted on No more wriggling out of writing ……: Last year I followed the example of the fabulous David J Bauman over at The Dad Poet and posted some of my favourite love poetry. I had a great time rediscovering some old favourites and finding new work that moved me; poetry that really had the…
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Saturday Song, All About Dat Bass
For those of you who, like me, don’t spend much time on top 40 radio, you might be thinking this post will be a musical fish tale. But no, this is bass, which sounds like and originates from a late Middle English version of the word base, the double S spelling, according to the Oxford…
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Dylan Thomas Helps Me Test a New Mic
https://twitter.com/DavidJBauman/status/562794263025815553 Yeah, ole Dylan is a helpful guy, isn’t he? I mentioned this poem in the last post as we were learning about villanelles in the library workshop this week. And this oft read, oft quoted piece was the prime example of how to write one that stays exactly to the form, yet finds a…
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Work-shop
If you search and find a poetry workshop near you, I hope you can go into it, not gently, but with the passion of Dylan Thomas, who wrote for his blind, dying father the poem on which the title of this post is based. And if you think that’s cheesy, well, I hope you’ll forgive…
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Gloucestershire Wassail–TBT
Okay, why not, a throwback Thursday for you, less than a quarter-hour from Christmas Thursday. A hundred years ago I sang in a high school chamber ensemble like this one. This isn’t one of the songs we performed, but I remember the style fondly, and our director whom we fondly called “Fred” led us in…
