Greetings, one and all.
This website is a fine custodian for many superb works from across the globe, and
I'm sure that we all fave and gasp in awe at the current input, but I was sorting out my
bookshelf yesterday and looking at the poems that I return to again and again- my old
friends. I have many, but there are some that rise to the top of the froth that you can
rely on to keep you on an even keel, bolster your spirit and make you feel good about the world.
I recently had a bit of banter with Kim Patrice Nunez about a poem she wrote about an ant, and
mentioned that she had not read a similar poem by Ogden Nash. She is now a fan of the mighty Ogden.
If you get the chance, check out his work. Which led me to post this about my favourite poems I've grown up with, and to comment on just a half dozen in less than four words. Here are my fave six- please feel free to add yours, and broaden our minds, in less than four words.
Abou Ben Adhem (Leigh Hunt) - My first listen, child
Warning (Jenny Joseph)- Rebellion
The Soldier (Rupert Brooke)- Classic
The Raven (Edgar Allen Poe)- Jackanory (research!)
Dulce et Decorum est (Wilfred Owen)- bleak futility
Elegy in a Country Churchyard (Thomas Grey)- best first stanza- ever
Ok, seven; She walks in beauty (Lord Byron).
Oh, sod it- The Termite (Ogden Nash)- Makes me smile
Thanks for your forebearance, Viv x