Keats A Song about myself
John Keats qualified as a surgeon apothecary
before concocting his poetry
He also wrote ballads & odes
but sonnets were his favourite mode
my version of Keats famous lyric for children
There was a naughty boy
And a naughty boy was he
For nothing would he do
but scribble poetry:
He took
up his pen
again&again
Each thought
was caught
one after
the other
on his
folio cover
Indoors
or out
&never
a doubt
into his head
ideas did shout
Why was
this so
No-one
did know
For like Topsy
they just
seemed
to grow!
In our poetic firmanent
Keats is a brightest star;
he died,he thought a failure-
history judges otherwise,
true poetics ,never dies
Ex-medical student Francis Thompson
off to Lords he went along
Writing of cricket in verse
producing a poem accurate but terse
GEORGE ELIOT
An eliot is an epigram form I labelled in honour of George Eliot the English novelist/poet,
inspired by an example in Chap 8 of her book Daniel Deronda.Here is her epigram should you
wish to try one for yourself
What name doth Joy most borrow
when life is fair ?
Tomorrow !
What name does best fit sorrow
In young despair?
Tomorrow !
A talent
that outlived
passing fame-
hidden beneath
her lover's name.
&here is my 'ELIOT'
What tune does youth most play
when future's biding ?
Today !
What wisdom does age convey
when time is passing ?
Today !
CHRISTINA R
Christina Rossetti
come by
come buy
eagerly lap
so exotic
this
drizzling
juice
crushed
fruit
sweet to the tongue
sound to he eye
come by
come buy
superbundant
innocence
in
abundance
aplenty
come by
come buy
jouissance
succulent
fruit
crushed
pulpy
to whet
your appetite
let
your
imagination
run
wild
effusive
prelapsarian
with
delicious desire
come by
come buy
take it
as
it
comes
Thomas Aquinas ,a 13th century Italian friar
first recorded use of the anapestic meter
in the AABBA form with prayers in Latin until
Edward Lear used theform for humourous verse
.The title Limerick is more uncertain but might have
aconnection
to the Irish town of that name
There once lived a friar,Thomas of Aquino
in latin,did his poetry flow
In a prayer anapestic
this form was to stick
until Lear gave AABBA ,a go
Artist&limerickteer
LEAR Mostly wrote nonsense verse
to keep the pennies dropimg into his purse
Known best as the limerick king
but art really made him sing
From Friar Thomas Aquino
AABBA cinquins did flow
With rhyme anapestic
the form did the trick
inspiring Lear et al to have a go
They inspired Edward to invent the limerick
which still makes online poetry sites tick
T S ELIOT wasteland
Eliot's
waste
land
so
empty
now of
flowers
to
while
away
the
hours
Missouri's Thomas Sterns Eliot
loved the English life quite a lot*
His style remained American
as a very poetical craftsman
a poet time has not forgot
Concepts in his 'Four Quartets'
in stone his reputation did set
EDWARD THOMAS
HAYMAKING a traditional delightful
12 END RHYME COUPLETS,of the labour filled days before mechanisation.
Nostalgia that remembers the good bits
of our yesterday's.
Edward Thomas a literary man
always wrote so his pens did scan
Sadly died in ww1
OMAR rubaiyat
tessellation"—or mosaic— of quatrains translation; rearranged, paraphrased,
into disconnected Persian
quatrains (rubai) 'a flowing, thematic narrative.
Edward Fitzgerald a gentle manner
translated Omar Khayyam
These quatrains known as rubaiyat
so novel hedonistic &stansaic
Omar Khayyam
a Persian poet man
Loved to pen quatrains
so he wrote them again.& again
‘A spark’ or ‘a tiny trace’
Barely more than a hint
The finest sparkling dust mote
The smallest piece of lint
A trace, barely perceptible
Scarcely carries through
An iota, wee, tiny, titchy
Minuscule, bijou
It is, by far, most certainly
The most magical thing I’ve heard
I present to you: ‘Scintilla’
My favourite poetic word
CHRISTINA R
Close to the Pre-Raphael sect
All proposals to wed,she did reject;
Her fame excels in retrospect-
A spinster,quiet,pious and chaste
Such talents were,not left to waste.
The talented Christina Rossetti
wrote carols and much poetry.
Married love elluded her,I'm afraid,
the poor lass dying as a spinster maid
Chaucer's elegiac poetry
The Book of the Duchess
The father of poetry in the early English language
in this original excerpt
try his tercet if you so wish
I have gret wonder, by this lighte,
How that I live, for day ne nighte
I may nat slepe wel nigh noght;
Geoffry Chaucer served as a page
first poet of ye olde English age
His Canterbury tales quite a feat
a work never did complete
It's another one of those days.
The weatherman says, "haze".
Searching for a noun, unfound
and listening for a verb, unheard,
what I wouldn't give
for an adjective.
Lines are short, abrupt, and broken up staccato like
Poet Gertrude Stein
had a staccato style quite fine
She also became a Cubist
& with prose poetry for a while did persist
FLORA THOMPSON Garden Fires an evocative 18 partial rhymed verse in two stanzas
Flora Thompson nee Timms
a novelist/poet for her sins
To up a pen to record Lark Rise
with observations fact..no lies
So
beloved-
by people
she would never
see
Flora found fame with a simple tale
Of rural poor,in town & vale;
Recording family life,page by page
Whilst a clerk for Royal mail-
Now modern classics of their age
Tribute to Flora Thompson 1876-1946 English author of Lark Rise to Candleford,
Still glides the Stream and Heatherley
GEORGE ELIOT
An an epigram form of George Eliot the English novelist/poet, as exampled in Chap 8 of her book Daniel Deronda.Here is her epigram style
What name doth Joy most borrow
when life is fair ?
Tomorrow !
What name does best fit sorrow
In young despair?
Tomorrow !
A talent
that outlived
passing fame-
hidden beneath
her lover's name.
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