Because I'm "homesick" tonight...

[ihrocks]

American England

People ask me, “What’s with you and England?” This is the best answer I have.

My soul has wandered the New World,
Lost and disconnected,
Until, by chance, I stumbled onto
Churchill’s
“Green and Pleasant Land.”

Walking the South Bank
On a spring night, beneath stars
of the Northern Sky,
Past the Tate Modern,
Beneath the Southwark Bridge,

Through the patchwork of London,
Which has no right angles,
Aged and ageless,
I tread the path of poets past,
And find the place my soul calls home.

[sloegin]

Are you a Brit, living in LA? Or, is it an anglophile thing?

[ihrocks]

I refuse to consider myself an Anglophile; to me the image conjures up middle-aged ladies with cheesy portraits of Chuck n' Di hanging over the mantle. I'm a native of LA, if that helps. All I know is I felt more at home there than I've ever felt here and a two-hour phone call to one of my favorite people (who happens to live in Bath, not London) had me a little misty-eyed last night and pining for my favorite spot along the Thames.

ihrocks

[Stanislaw]

Nice poem, not as dark as the others in this forum.

[nicholasburrus]

Like the use of powerful English enen that I am an Occomist

[sloegin]

It's always nice to dream.

[fayefaye]

I LOVE ENGLAND. I lived there half my life, and still really miss it. A lot of people criticize it, I always argue with them about it. :)

[azmuse]

miss England; was born there...my soul still wanders back every chance it gets

[Koa]

Did you live in England faye??? GREAT!!!

My mum thinks there was a mistake at the nursery and she picked up and English baby instead... ME. My mentality is so very nordic at times, nothing to do with the Italian one... And I love the Englishness when I go there, everything is so incredibly different from here, even if we think it's so close...

Good poem ihrocks, I like poems about places and the feeling they give.

[ihrocks]

Thanks for all the feed-back. Nice to know I'm not the only one out here missing that little island. It has its flaws, every place does, but there's no place quite like it.

ihrocks

[fayefaye]

Originally posted by Koa
Did you live in England faye??? GREAT!!!

My mum thinks there was a mistake at the nursery and she picked up and English baby instead... ME. My mentality is so very nordic at times, nothing to do with the Italian one... And I love the Englishness when I go there, everything is so incredibly different from here, even if we think it's so close...


koa, sometimes our similarities are a little freaky! Yeah, I love England, I don't even really know why, maybe just childhood memories? But yeah, I still have a bit of an English mentality.

[Koa]

Originally posted by ihrocks
Thanks for all the feed-back. Nice to know I'm not the only one out here missing that little island. It has its flaws, every place does, but there's no place quite like it.

ihrocks

*coughs* small island??? I wouldnt call it small... but I guess Americans have a different sense of size ;) ;) ;) :D :D :D

A lot of people have an ambivalent feeling towards England... sometimes even I do, I love it but some of its features, even in the mentality, are so hard to understand for an Italian... It's a peculiar place, so close (to me) and so distant....

And where exactly did you live faye, if I can ask?

[ihrocks]

Yes, that was my American sense of proportion getting in the way, but it wasn't meant in to be in any way at all construed as negative. As is often pointed out, great things can come in small packages. :)

ihrocks

[Koa]

Oh don't worry, I didn't think you were implying anything... Just to me a 'small' island is a place where there's no space for more than a village or 2... :D

But then I've always heard that Americans think everything else is small cos the USA are so big... ;)