LIFE IS A POEM THE BEST VERSES DO NOT HAVE TO RHYME
LIFE IS A POEM THE BEST VERSES
DO NOT HAVE TO RHYME
I have my own series of life
mottos such as LIFE IS A DISCO SO DANCE and now I am adding LIFE IS A POEM THE BEST VERSES
DO NOT HAVE TO RHYME
I am working on my poetry
anthology POETS CORNER which will be published in three, perhaps four, volumes
on Amazon by the end of the week. One week’s time and it will be the end of the
month but that is another subject.
Within
my anthologies I say that I cannot write poetry, I love poetry but I cannot
write it. Yesterday I was sitting in the beautiful parkland of the National
Trust at Stowe looking at a carpet of snowdrops when a poem burst into my mind.
I scribbled it onto a lose piece of paper I had in my pocket then at home
refined it just a little to this:
A hint of spring on a winter’s
day,
the
snowdrop in a carpet of white
upon a
field of green.
The
naked branches of the trees
look
down and envy all they see.
Then
they smile at what is yet to come.
A
robin dances on the ground
his
red breast differs with the white
and
thinks could this be a nesting site ?
But
then the footsteps of a man come near
and
with it sadness, dread and fear.
The
snowdrop, trees and birds
worry
the end may soon be theirs.
Extinction
of climate is the aim of man.
As a teacher in school if a
teenager had submitted that to me as a piece of work I would have said: Well
done, that’s good but realistically that is not going to get me a place in
Poet’s Corner is it. But never mind I am proud of my little effort and at the
end of the day LIFE IS A POEM THE BEST VERSES DO NOT HAVE TO RHYME.
SMILE OF THE DAY: Love is putting
a piece of your soul into someone else’s care, and being responsible for an
equal share of theirs. This is soulmate love.
Yesterday I watched the film THE BOOK
THIEF. OMG what a wonderful story that was. The Book Thief is a historical novel by Australian author Markus
Zusak, and is his most popular work. Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international
bestseller and was translated into 63
languages and sold 16 million copies. It was
adapted into a 2013 feature film of the same name. As a prolific writer of prose how I
wish I could write a story like that.
Yesterday I did
not write a lot, just 3,354 which brings my total since 1st January
2021 to 375304. My snowdrop poem is contained within those words:
A hint of spring on a winter’s
day,
the
snowdrop in a carpet of white
upon a
field of green.
The
naked branches of the trees
look
down and envy all they see.
Then
they smile at what is yet to come.
A
robin dances on the ground
his
red breast differs with the white
and
thinks could this be a nesting site ?
But
then the footsteps of a man come near
and
with it sadness, dread and fear.
The
snowdrop, trees and birds
worry
the end may soon be theirs.
Extinction
of climate is the aim of man.
After we left
Stowe yesterday we drove past a garden centre where we spent a lot of money on
pots of snowdrops to plant in the garden.
Today I have a lot
pf work to do with our SMILE envelopes which have to go into the post tomorrow
morning. The quiz sheet I am using is POETRY IN MOTION. See how many you can
answer.
POETRY IN MOTION
Johnny Tillotson had a number one hit in 1961
with Poetry In Motion. Great little song, here you are invited to test your
knowledge of poetry, all of it in motion in this fun little quiz.
- Where would you find poets corner ?
- Who wrote the nonsense poem The Dong
With The Luminous Nose ?
- In what did the owl and the pussycat
wrap their money and money in ?
- What colour were the paws of the dog
sleeping in his kennel in Walter de la
Mare’s poem ?
- On which bridge did
William Wordsworth write his poem ?
- Complete this rhyme:
A million housewives every day pic up a tin of beans and say…..
- Complete this rhyme:
A Mars a day helps you…..
- Who is the current
Poet Laureate ?
- What subject matter
did Wilfred Owen use for his poetry ?
- What illness brought about the young
death of John Keats ?
- Which comic poet has written on his
grave: I told you I was ill ?
- Which comic poet wished she had
looked after her teeth ?
- Who told the story of good news being
taken from Ghent to Aix ?
- Of whose ride did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow relate ?
- In Cockney rhyming
slang what is trouble and strife ?
- About which prison did Oscar Wilde
write a ballad ?
- Which poet and playwright had a curse
put on his grave ?
- What tales did Geoffrey Chaucer write
?
- According to Shakespeare how many
ages does a man have ?
- He wrote The Jungle Book, Gunga Din
and If but declined to be appointed Poet Laureate. Who was he ?
- Who said he must go down to the sea
again ?
- About which train did W H Auden write
?
- Which poet was married to Elizabeth
who also wrote poetry ?
- Who is widely regarded as the
national poet of Scotland ?
- Who gave us The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner and Kubla Kahn ?
Every day I share
our SMILE of the day with a background picture on social media. Starting today
I am sharing the figures from china virus on social media. I have put the words
and figures over a background of love. As a nation we are so sadly failing to
respect our dead and send love to families. This, I hope, will be my little bit
towards changing that.
So Wikipedia, Wonderful Wikipedia, what can you
tell us about 21st February ON
THIS DAY ?
21st February 1952: The British
Government under Winston Churchill abolishes identity cards to set the people
free. I THINK WE NEED TO IMMEDIATELY REINTRODUCE IDENTITY CARDS TO HELP CUT
BACK ON CRIME AND TO IDENTIFY THOSE WHO FAIL TO FOLLOW THE RULES IN THE FIGHT
AGAINST CHINA VIRUS – THE OLD BIDDIES WHO POKE THEIR NOSES OUT THE TOP OF THEIR
FACEMASKS.
21st February 1958: The CND peace symbol
is commissioned.
21st February 1965: Malcolm X is
assassinated while giving a talk in Harlem.
21st February 1972: United States
President Richard Nixon visits the People’s Republic of China to normalise
Sino-American relations. WHY CAN THE WORLD NOT SIMPLY BLOCK CHINA OUT OF OUR
EXISTENCE ? OVER DECADES IT HAS DONE SO
MUCH BAD.
21st February 1975: The Watergate
Scandal – former US Attorney General John N Michell and former White House
aides H R Haldeman and John Ehrichman are sentenced to prison.
ANYONE I KNOW BORN ON THIS DAY – 21st
FEBURARY ???????????
21st February 1951: Larry Drake born.
WHO ?
21st February 1954: Christina Rees
supposedly a politician born. POLITICIANS ARE LOWER LIFE FORMS, ARE THE REALLY
BORN OR DO THEY JUST HAPPEN ?
21st February 1960: Plamen Oresharski
born. ANOTHER LOWER LIFE FORM POLITICIAN THIS TIME FROM NULGARIA – MAKE THAT
BUKLGARIA.
21st February 1983 Braylon Edwards an American
footballer born. FOR GOODNESS SAKE WHEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND AMERICA DOES NOT
KNOW HOW TO PLAY FOOTBALL !
21st February 1985: Jamall Westerman
ANOTHER PHONEY FOOTBALLER FROM AMERICA BORN.
21st February
2002: John Thaw, born in 1942, died. WHAT A GREAT ACTOR HE WAS.
21st
February 2018: Evangelist Billy Graham died at the age of 100 years. GOD DSAID
KEEP THE GATES CLOSED, I CANNOT COPE WITH HIM UP HERE !
LIFE IS A POEM THE BEST VERSES DO NOT HAVE TO RHYME.
A hint of spring on a winter’s day,
the snowdrop in a carpet of white
upon a field of green.
The naked branches of the trees
look down and envy all they see.
Then they smile at what is yet to come.
A robin dances on the ground
his red breast differs with the white
and thinks could this be a nesting site ?
But then the footsteps of a man come near
and with it sadness, dread and fear.
The snowdrop, trees and birds
worry the end may soon be theirs.
Extinction of climate is the aim of man.
SMILE OF THE DAY: Love is putting
a piece of your soul into someone else’s care, and being responsible for an
equal share of theirs. This is soulmate love.
Catch
up again tomorrow
Dave
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