{"id":2933,"date":"2014-12-09T20:19:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:35:44","slug":"poets-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/poetryoutloud.org\/poems-and-performance\/listen-to-poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/poetryoutloud.org\/poems-and-performance\/listen-to-poetry<\/a><\/strong><\/address>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8925\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P_f_Sp1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P_f_Sp1.gif 149w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P_f_Sp1-94x150.gif 94w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a4\u00a0 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE \u00a0[1564-1616]<\/span><\/h6>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>The man that hath no music in himself,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>The motions of his spirit are dull as night<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>And his affections dark as Erebus:<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>[The Merchant of Venice]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lit.genius.com\/William-shakespeare-the-seven-ages-of-man-annotated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-42141 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7ages-of-man.jpg\" alt=\"7ages-of-man\" width=\"266\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7ages-of-man.jpg 266w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7ages-of-man-150x55.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/address>\n<h6 class=\"yt\" style=\"color: #222222; text-align: right;\">\u2022 \u00a0The Seven Ages of Man\u00a0\u21d2<\/h6>\n<p id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title yt-uix-expander-head\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Alexander Pope ~ Ode on Solitude ~ poem with text\"><strong>\u2207 \u00a0Alexander Pope \u00a0<\/strong> [1688-1744] \u00a0\u2193 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yt\" style=\"color: #222222; text-align: center;\"><strong><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title yt-uix-expander-head\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Alexander Pope ~ Ode on Solitude ~ poem with text\">\u00bb Ode on Solitude\u00bb<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0X-ma52ifos\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2022\u2192<a title=\"Dance of Death\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totentanz-online.de\/medien\/literatur\/scott.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dance of Death<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2190[<strong>Sir Walter Scott<\/strong>, 1771 &#8211; 1832]<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u03a8\u00a0 \u00a0Three poems \u00a0\u2193<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1<strong>\u2192\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/145\/ww194.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Rainbow<\/a>\u00a0 [William Wordsworth]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2\u2192\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/child-father-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Child Is Father To The Man<\/a>\u00a0 [Gerard Manley Hopkins]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">3\u2192\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westegg.com\/nash\/infant-female.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Song To Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0[Ogden Nash]<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6TDKu0XUF4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/101\/654.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0&#8216;The Bridge of Sighs&#8217;\u00a0<\/a> \u21d3\u00a0 \u00a0[Thomas Hood,\u00a0 1799-1845]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mwjo41jxJnQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/lady-shalott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;The Lady of Shalott&#8217;\u00a0<\/a> \u21d3\u00a0 \u00a0[Alfred Tennyson,\u00a0 1809-1892]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgvfAidTk6g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2666 \u00a0Jeremy Irons reads\u00a0\u2193\u00a0\u00a0\u00abAfterwards\u00bb [Thomas Hardy_1840-1928]<\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHpFBzCxxyk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay,<br \/>And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings,<br \/>Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say,<br \/>&#8216;He was a man who used to notice such things&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid&#8217;s soundless blink,<br \/>The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight<br \/>Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think,<br \/>&#8216;To him this must have been a familiar sight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm,<br \/>When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn,<br \/>One may say, &#8216;He strove that such innocent creatures should come to no harm,<br \/>But he could do little for them; and now he is gone.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>If, when hearing that I have been stilled at last, they stand at the door,<br \/>Watching the full-starred heavens that winter sees<br \/>Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,<br \/>&#8216;He was one who had an eye for such mysteries&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>And will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom<br \/>And a crossing breeze cuts a pause in its outrollings,<br \/>Till they rise again, as they were a new bell&#8217;s boom,<br \/>&#8216;He hears it not now, but used to notice such things&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\" style=\"color: #222222; text-align: center;\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title long-title yt-uix-expander-head\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Morgan Freeman recites 'Invictus' from memory on Charlie Rose\">\u2666 \u2192\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a7q_vACVwq0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Morgan Freeman<\/strong> recites <strong>&#8216;Invictus&#8217;<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0by\u00a0<strong>William Ernest Henley<\/strong> \u00a0[1849-1903]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/31599823\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">. . . It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll.<br \/>I am the master of my fate:\u00a0I am the captain of my soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2666 \u00a0Richard Burton<\/strong> reads <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umilta.net\/hound.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;The hound of Heaven&#8217;<\/a> <\/strong>\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/francis-thompson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francis Thompson<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> [1859-1907]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gToj6SLWz8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50573\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichardBurton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichardBurton.jpg 480w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichardBurton-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichardBurton-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RichardBurton-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2666 \u00a0\u00abDesiderata\u00bb \u00a0\u2193\u00a0<a title=\"Max Ehrmann\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Ehrmann\">Max Ehrmann<\/a>\u00a0(1872\u20131945)<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GmHl0ZhhZLc\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Speak your truth quietly and clearly;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Keep interested in your own career, however humble;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Neither be cynical about love;\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Be cheerful. \u00a0Strive to be happy.<\/address>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a4 \u00a0Two poems by D H Lawrence \u00a0\u21d3\u00a0[1885-1930]<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u21d3\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/elephant-slow-mate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Elephant Is Slow To Mate \u2190<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F1KjTafe1vc\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u2666\u00a0\u00abThe English Are So Nice!\u00bb \u2193<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tes.com\/teaching-resource\/-the-english-are-so-nice-by-d-h-lawrence-poetry-reading-6269316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50575\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TheEnglishAreSoNice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TheEnglishAreSoNice.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TheEnglishAreSoNice-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">The English are so nice &#8211;\u00a0so awfully nice<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> they are the nicest people in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">And what&#8217;s more, they&#8217;re very nice about being nice<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> about your being nice as well!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> If you&#8217;re not nice they soon make you feel it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Americans and French and Germans and so on<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> they&#8217;re all very well &#8211;\u00a0but they&#8217;re not really nice, you know.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> They&#8217;re not nice in our sense of the word, are they now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">That&#8217;s why one doesn&#8217;t have to take them seriously.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> We must be nice to them, of course, \u00a0of course, naturally\u2014<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> But it doesn&#8217;t really matter what you say to them,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> they don&#8217;t really understand\u2014<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> you can just say anything to them:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> be nice, you know, just be nice<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> but you must never take them seriously,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> they wouldn&#8217;t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Just be nice, you know! \u00a0Oh, fairly nice,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> not too nice of course, they take advantage\u2014<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> but nice enough, just nice enough<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> to let them feel they&#8217;re not quite\u00a0as nice as they might be.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title yt-uix-expander-head\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Bill Murray Reads Wallace Stevens\">\u00a4 \u00a0Bill Murray reads \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0Wallace Stevens \u00a0[1879-1955]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>\u00a0The Planet On The Table \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ariel was glad he had written his poems.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> They were of a remembered time<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Or of something seen that he liked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Other makings of the sun<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Were waste and welter<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> And the ripe shrub writhed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">His self and the sun were one<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> And his poems, although makings of his self,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Were no less makings of the sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It was not important that they survive.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> What mattered was that they should bear<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Some lineament or character,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Some affluence, if only half-perceived,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> In the poverty of their words,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Of the planet of which they were part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GaT_2cL33R4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>\u2022 \u00a0A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts\u00a0\u2191<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The difficulty to think at the end of day,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> When the shapeless shadow covers the sun<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> And nothing is left except light on your fur\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There was the cat slopping its milk all day,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Fat cat, red tongue, green mind, white milk<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> And August the most peaceful month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">To be, in the grass, in the peacefullest time,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Without that monument of cat,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The cat forgotten on the moon;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And to feel that the light is a rabbit-light<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> In which everything is meant for you<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> And nothing need be explained;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Then there is nothing to think of. It comes of itself;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> And east rushes west and west rushes down,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> No matter. The grass is full<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And full of yourself. The trees around are for you,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The whole of the wideness of night is for you,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> A self that touches all edges,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">You become a self that fills the four corners of night.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The red cat hides away in the fur-light<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> And there you are humped high, humped up,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">You are humped higher and higher, black as stone\u2014<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> You sit with your head like a carving in space<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> And the little green cat is a bug in the grass.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2666 \u00a0Wystan Hugh Auden \u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0[1907-1973]<\/h5>\n<p style=\"color: #424242; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/w-h-auden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41152 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/auden.jpg\" alt=\"auden\" width=\"213\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/auden.jpg 213w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/auden-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>\u21d2<a href=\"http:\/\/audensociety.org\/poems.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poems<\/a>\u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2248 \u00a0&#8216;If I\u00a0could tell you&#8217; \u00a0\u2193<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0F7DXtBE5A\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u21d3\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_a-eXIoyYA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00abFuneral Blues\u00bb<\/a>\u00a0\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2mifAhvkcJU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Stop all the clocks<\/strong>, cut off the telephone,<br \/>Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,<br \/>Silence the pianos and with muffled drum<br \/>Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead<br \/>Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.<br \/>Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,<br \/>Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He was my North, my South, my East and West,<br \/>My working week and my Sunday rest,<br \/>My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;<br \/>I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,<br \/>Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,<br \/>Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;<br \/>For nothing now can ever come to any good.<\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title long-title yt-uix-expander-head\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"O Tell Me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden (read by Tom O'Bedlam)\">O Tell Me the Truth About Love \u00a0\u21d3<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g3O2H3bV1eo\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a4\u00a0 Robert Graves\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 <strong>[1885 &#8211; 1985]<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"font-size: inherit;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JcJXrfwUiS4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">&lt;\/p&gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0 &#8216;The Face in the Mirror&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d1<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly glaring<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From wide, uneven orbits; one brow drooping<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Somewhat over the eye<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Because of a missile fragment still inhering,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Skin-deep, as a foolish record of old-world fighting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Crookedly broken nose \u2014 low tackling caused it;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cheeks, furrowed; coarse grey hair, flying frenetic;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Forehead, wrinkled and high;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jowls, prominent; ears, large; jaw, pugilistic;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Teeth, few; lips, full and ruddy; mouth, ascetic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I pause with razor poised, scowling derision<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the mirrored man whose beard needs my attention,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And once more ask him why<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He still stands ready, with a boy\u2019s presumption,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To court the queen in her high silk pavilion.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"entry-title single-post-entry-title element-with-custom-line-height ut-flowtyped\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0\u2018A Welsh Incident\u2019\u00a0 \u00a0 \u21d3<\/h6>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/susannahfullerton.com.au\/poem-of-the-month-a-welsh-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Welsh Oncident noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Welsh-incident.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Welsh-incident.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Welsh-incident-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Welsh-incident-768x225.jpg 768w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Welsh-incident-150x44.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Welsh-incident-400x117.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"entry-title single-post-entry-title element-with-custom-line-height ut-flowtyped\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/h6>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a4 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1rjRYSfCJvM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philip Larkin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2190[1922-1985]<\/h6>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u03a6 \u00a0\u00abThis Be the Verse\u00bb<\/strong> \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0(read by <strong>Tom Courtenay<\/strong>)<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPsNpmtOv0Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">They fuck you up, your mum and dad.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They may not mean to, but they do.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">They fill you with the faults they had<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And add some extra, just for you.<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">But they were fucked up in their turn<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By fools in old-style hats and coats,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Who half the time were soppy-stern<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And half at one another\u2019s throats.<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Man hands on misery to man.<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It deepens like a coastal shelf.<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">Get out as early as you can,<\/address><address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And don\u2019t have any kids yourself.<\/address>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca\u2192\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/furiousflower.org\/we-real-cool-by-gwendolyn-brooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00abWe Real Cool\u00bb\u00a0<\/a> \u21d3\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gwendolyn Brooks \u00a0[1917-2000]<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZkw5_rpV0Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8230; read by Mr Morgan Freeman \u00a0\u2191<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u0398 \u00a0\u00abWanting to Die\u00bb \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L4VlcVfgFJk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Anne Sexton<\/span><\/a> \u2190[1928-1974]<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UM6nWRXCQD8\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Then the almost unnameable lust returns.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Even then I have nothing against life.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">I know well the grass blades you mention,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">the furniture you have placed under the sun.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">But suicides have a special language.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Like carpenters they want to know\u00a0<em>which tools.<\/em><\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">They never ask\u00a0<em>why build.<\/em><\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Twice I have so simply declared myself,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">have taken on his craft, his magic.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">In this way, heavy and thoughtful,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">warmer than oil or water,<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">I have rested, drooling at the mouth-hole.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">I did not think of my body at needle point.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Even the cornea and the leftover urine were gone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Suicides have already betrayed the body.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Still-born, they don\u2019t always die,<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">but dazzled, they can\u2019t forget a drug so sweet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">that even children would look on and smile.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">To thrust all that life under your tongue!\u2014<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">that, all by itself, becomes a passion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Death\u2019s a sad bone; bruised, you\u2019d say,<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">and yet she waits for me, year after year,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">to so delicately undo an old wound,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">to empty my breath from its bad prison.<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Balanced there, suicides sometimes meet,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">raging at the fruit a pumped-up moon,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">leaving the bread they mistook for a kiss,<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">leaving the page of the book carelessly open,<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">something unsaid, the phone off the hook<\/span><\/address><address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">and the love whatever it was, an infection.<\/span><\/address>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u00a4 \u00a4\u00a0\u00a0Sylvia Plath \u00a0[1932-1963] \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0(two poems)<\/span><\/h6>\n<p id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u2248 \u00a0The Night Dances<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FunP6dJ4ZlY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>\u2248 \u00a0Ariel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BJbX5o2gqhM\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Stasis in darkness.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Then the substanceless blue pour of tor and distances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">God\u2019s lioness, how one we grow,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Pivot of heels and knees!\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The furrow splits and passes,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> sister to the brown arc of the neck I cannot catch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Nigger-eye<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Berries casting dark<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Hooks\u2014Black sweet blood mouthfuls,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Shadows.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Something else hauls me through air\u2014<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Thighs, hair;\u00a0flakes from my heels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">White\u00a0Godiva, I unpeel\u2014<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Dead hands, dead stringencies.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> And now I\u00a0foam to wheat, a glitter of seas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The child\u2019s cry melts in the wall.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> And I\u00a0am the arrow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The dew that flies<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Suicidal, at one with the drive<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Into the red\u00a0eye, the cauldron of morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2665\u00a0 &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/milan-poetry.blogspot.com.es\/2007\/03\/laughing-heart-charles-bukowski.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Laughing Heart&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0\u2193 [Charles Bukowski]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PepdFehviKo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-50576\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-laughing-heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-laughing-heart.jpg 728w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-laughing-heart-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-laughing-heart-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-laughing-heart-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;Tiptoe&#8217;\u00a0 \u00a0\u21d3\u00a0 [ani difranco]<\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmy-0Xuet2c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>tiptoeing through the used condoms\u00a0strewn on the piers<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> off the west side highway\u00a0sunset behind the skyline of jersey<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> walking towards the water\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>with a fetus holding court in my gut<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> my body highjacked\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0my tits swollen\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0I&#8217;m sore<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> the river has more colors at sunset than my sock drawer ever dreamed of<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> I could wake up screaming sometimes\u00a0\u00a0but I don&#8217;t<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> I could step off the end of this pier\u00a0but I&#8217;ve got shit to do<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> and I&#8217;ve an appointment on tuesday\u00a0to shed uninvited blood and tissue<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> I&#8217;ll miss you I say to the river\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0to the water<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> to the son or\u00a0daughter I thought better of<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> I could fall in love with jersey at sunset<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> but I leave\u00a0the view<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> to the rats<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <strong> and tiptoe back<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u2666 \u00a0Michael Ondaatje<\/strong> \u2193\u00a0reads <strong>&#8216;The Cinnamon Peeler&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0<em>[Hamilton Tolles Lecture, 2009]\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3A2ekfA8Kn8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50577 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TheCinnamonPeeler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TheCinnamonPeeler.jpg 200w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TheCinnamonPeeler-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TheCinnamonPeeler-85x150.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>If I were a cinnamon peeler<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>I would ride your bed<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>and leave the yellow bark dust<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>on your pillow.<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Your breasts and shoulders would reek<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>you could never walk through markets<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>without the profession of my fingers<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>floating over you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>The blind would<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>stumble certain of whom they approached<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>though you might bathe<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>under rain gutters, monsoon.<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Here on the upper thigh<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>at this smooth pasture<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>neighbor to your hair<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>or the crease<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>that cuts your back. This ankle.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>You will be known among strangers<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>as the cinnamon peeler&#8217;s wife.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>I could hardly glance at you<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>before marriage<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong>never touch you<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>&#8212; your keen nosed mother, your rough brothers.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>I buried my hands<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>in saffron, disguised them<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>over smoking tar,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>helped the honey gatherers&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>When we swam once<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>I touched you in water\u00a0<\/strong><strong>and our bodies remained free,<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>you could hold me and be blind of smell.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>You climbed the bank and said, \u00a0<\/strong><strong>this is how you touch other women<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>the grasscutter&#8217;s wife, the lime burner&#8217;s daughter.<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>And you searched your arms \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>for the missing perfume.<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>and knew\u00a0<strong>what good is it \u00a0<\/strong><strong>to be the lime burner&#8217;s daughter\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>left with no trace<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>as if not spoken to in an act of love\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>as if wounded without the pleasure of \u00a0scar.<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You touched<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>your belly to my hands<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>in the dry air and said<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> <strong>I am the cinnamon<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>peeler&#8217;s wife. \u00a0Smell me.<\/strong><\/span><\/address><address>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a4\u00a0 Lawrence Ferlinghetti:<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/address><\/address><\/address>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6h6RVIYQvBo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 12.800000190734863px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ferlinghetti.jpg\" alt=\"ferlinghetti\" width=\"227\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ferlinghetti.jpg 227w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ferlinghetti-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>One grand boulevard with trees<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <strong>with one grand cafe in sun<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <strong>with strong black coffee in very small cups.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>One not necessarily very beautiful<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <strong>man or woman who loves you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>One fine day.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u00a0\u00a4 \u00a0Allen Ginsberg \u00a0[1926-1997]\u21d2<a href=\"http:\/\/lit.genius.com\/Allen-ginsberg-howl-annotated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8216;Howl&#8217;\u21d0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u2207 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilmeyer.com\/daevidallen\/daevskel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daevid Allen <\/a>\u00a0\u2190\u00a0[1938-2015]<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0 &#8216;POET FOR SALE&#8217; \u21d3 <\/strong>\u00a0(<em>&#8216;Now Is The Happiest Time Of Your Life&#8217;<\/em>_1977)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycBYm_1MUo8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Poet for sale, a real live one, yeah.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Yes a real live person for sale<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>I have my values anyway,<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Clothing no extra charge of course<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Buy me now, go on<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Buy me now, save yourself.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Get a gnome for your home<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Or an angel in a taxi-cab<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Or a corpse in a London bus<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Or a fairy in your dairy milking petty cash.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>All you gotta do is buy me and I&#8217;m yours, all yours.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>No extra charge and my hair is real I tell you, it&#8217;s real!<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>I beat as I sleep as I dream.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>You could have me today, no deposit and I&#8217;m interest free too<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Just free. \u00a0Isn&#8217;t that enough?<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Take me and I will love you, lurve you, love you, love you<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>And then, eat you, eat you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Thank you, thank you, thank you &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Thank you, thank you, thank you<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Thank you, thank you, thank you \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<\/strong><strong>Wank you, swallow you whole.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Master, your word is law<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Wipe your feet on my mouth and I will wait at your door.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Am I really wanted? Am I? Am I wanted?<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Is my head to be rented till demented?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Look, I&#8217;m no brothel full of philosophic muscle<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>I&#8217;m no menstruating minstrel in a bedroom with no headroom<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>I&#8217;m no rotten ill-gotten corpse of cold glutton to be bought cheap<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>So piss off purchasers!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8216;Hey man &#8211; what&#8217;s happening?&#8217;<\/span> \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a4\u00a0 Poets on Film \u00a0 \u21d3 \u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/poets_on_film_no_1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Film Board of Canada<\/a>]\u00a0 \u21d0<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">This short film brings together animated interpretations of four poems by great Canadian wordsmiths:<\/p>\n<h6><strong>[1] \u00a0\u00abRiverdale Lion\u00bb \u2193\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><em>by John Robert Colombo<\/em><\/h6>\n<address>Bound lion, almost blind from meeting their gaze and popcorn<\/address><address>the Saturday kids love you. It is their parents<\/address><address>who would paint your mane with polkadots to match their California shorts<\/address><address>\u00a0and would trim your nails for tie clips.<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>Your few roars delight them. But they wish you would quicken your pace<\/address><address>and not disappear so often into your artificial cave<\/address><address>for there they think you partake of secret joys and race<\/address><address>through the jungle-green lair of memory<\/address><address>under an African sun as gold as your mane.<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>But you fool them. You merely suffer the heat and scatter the flies<\/address><address>with your tail. You never saw Africa.<\/address><address>The sign does not tell them that you were born here, in captivity,<\/address><address>\u00a0that you are as much a Canadian as they are.<\/address>\n<h6><strong>[2] \u00a0\u00abA Kite is a Victim\u00bb \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0by \u00a0<strong>Leonard Cohen \u00a0[1961]<\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n<address>A kite is a victim you are sure of.\u2028<\/address><address>You love it because it pulls\u2028<\/address><address>gentle enough to call you master,\u2028<\/address><address>strong enough to call you fool;\u2028<\/address><address>because it lives\u2028<\/address><address>like a desperate trained falcon\u2028<\/address><address>in the high sweet air,<\/address><address>and you can always haul it down\u2028<\/address><address>to tame it in your drawer.\u2028<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>\u2028A kite is a fish you have already<\/address><address>caught \u2028in a pool where no fish come,\u2028<\/address><address>so you play him carefully and long,\u2028<\/address><address>and hope he won&#8217;t give up,\u2028<\/address><address>or the wind die down.\u2028\u2028<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>A kite is the last poem you&#8217;ve written\u2028<\/address><address>so you give it to the wind,\u2028<\/address><address>but you don&#8217;t let it go\u2028<\/address><address>until someone finds you\u2028<\/address><address>something else to do.\u2028\u2028<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>A kite is a contract of glory\u2028<\/address><address>that must be made with the sun,\u2028<\/address><address>so you make friends with the field\u2028<\/address><address>the river and the wind,\u2028<\/address><address>then you pray the whole cold night before,\u2028<\/address><address>under the travelling cordless moon,\u2028<\/address><address>to make you worthy and lyric and pure.<\/address>\n<h6><strong>[3] \u00a0\u00abKlaxon\u00bb, \u00a0\u2191 \u00a0by \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/porcupinesquill.ca\/bookinfo3.php?index=242\">James Reaney<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>[1949]<\/strong><\/h6>\n<address>All day cars mooed and shrieked,\u2028<\/address><address>Hollered and bellowed and wept\u2028<\/address><address>Upon the road.\u2028<\/address><address>They slid by with bits of fur attached,\u2028<\/address><address>Fox-tails and rabbit-legs,\u2028<\/address><address>The skulls and horns of deer,\u2028<\/address><address>Cars with yellow spectacles\u2028<\/address><address>Or motorcycle monocle,\u2028<\/address><address>Cars whose gold eyes burnt\u2028<\/address><address>With a too-rich battery,\u2028<\/address><address>Murderous cars and manslaughter cars,\u2028<\/address><address>Chariots from whose foreheads leapt\u2028<\/address><address>Silver women of ardent bosom.\u2028<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>Ownerless, passengerless, driverless,\u2028<\/address><address>They came to anyone\u2028<\/address><address>And with headlights full of tears\u2028<\/address><address>Begged for a master,\u2028<\/address><address>For someone to drive them\u2028<\/address><address>For the familiar chauffeur.<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>\u2028Limousines covered with pink slime\u2028<\/address><address>Of children\u2019s blood\u2028<\/address><address>Turned into the open fields\u2028<\/address><address>And fell over into ditches,\u2028<\/address><address>The wheels kicking helplessly.\u2028<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>Taxis begged trees to step inside\u2028<\/address><address>Automobiles begged of posts\u2028<\/address><address>The whereabouts of their mother.\u2028<\/address><address>But no one wished to own them anymore,\u2028<\/address><address>Everyone wished to walk.<\/address>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">[4]\u00a0 \u00abThe Bulge\u00bb \u00a0\u2191 \u00a0by George Johnston<\/h5>\n<address>Nobody knows what&#8217;s growing in Bridget.<\/address><address>Nobody knows whose is.<\/address><address>What&#8217;s more, maybe a beauty queen<\/address><address>Maybe a midget, maybe a braided bull to stand by the door<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>Lovely full Bridget<\/address><address>Her eyes are figs;<\/address><address>Her belly&#8217;s an ocean heaving with fish;<\/address><address>Her hair&#8217;s a barn yard with chickens and pigs;<\/address><address>Her outside is a banquet;<\/address><address>Her tongue is a dish.<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address>Something enormous is bulging in Bridget: \u2028<\/address><address>A milkman, a postman, a sugar stick, a slop, \u2028<\/address><address>An old maid, a bad maid, a dull head, a fidget. \u2028<\/address><address>Multple sweet Bridget, \u2028What will she draw?<\/address>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u2207 \u00a0Charles Edward Carry&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00abThe Sleepy Giant\u00bb\u00a0\u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\">[voice &amp; music: <strong>Natalie Merchant]<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZM6r8RopJ9g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-48267 noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-48267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sleepygiant.png\" alt=\"sleepygiant\" width=\"459\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sleepygiant.png 690w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sleepygiant-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sleepygiant-150x43.png 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sleepygiant-400x116.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #818386; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">My age is three hundred and seventy-two,\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">And I think, with the deepest regret,\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">How I used to pick up and voraciously chew\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">The dear little boys whom I met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #818386; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">I\u2019ve eaten them raw, in their holiday suits;\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">I\u2019ve eaten them curried with rice;\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">I\u2019ve eaten them baked, in their jackets and boots,\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">And found them exceedingly nice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #818386; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">But now that my jaws are too weak for such fare,\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">I think it exceedingly rude\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">To do such a thing, when I\u2019m quite well aware\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Little boys do not like to be chewed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #818386; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">And so I contentedly live upon eels,\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">And try to do nothing amiss,\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">And I pass all the time I can spare from my meals\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #003366;\">In innocent slumber\u2014like this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2192http:\/\/poetryoutloud.org\/poems-and-performance\/listen-to-poetry \u00a4 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [1564-1616] The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. 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