"mano a mano"- Beautiful poem!
"I dreamt last night; and in that dream"."Z---------'s Dream" by Anne Bronte
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"mano a mano"- Beautiful poem!
"I dreamt last night; and in that dream"."Z---------'s Dream" by Anne Bronte
https://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=345201
Enjoyed. Complex poem for me... found some enlightenment here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full...09606#abstract :)
"After all," - Yukunno Ghirmay; QESINE... https://www.poetry.com/poem/163043/qesine
Thanks for the very interesting and complete critique on "Z_______Dreams".
Enjoyed the minimalism of QESINE...
"The barnacle is rather odd —"."The Barnacle" by A.E. Stallings
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-barnacle/
Enjoyed the étude on the barnacle :)
"Come, let us weep for Begum; he is dead."- John Kendall; Elegy On A Rhinoceros (Recently Deceased)... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ed-49304343604
Ai! Beautiful poem on the death of Begun! Didn't find a bio of the poet, 19 C perhaps?
"Dancing and prancing to town we go,"."On The Wall Top." by Kate Greenaway
https://www.poetrycat.com/kate-green...n-the-wall-top
Found something:
• https://prabook.com/web/john_kaye.kendall/748453
• https://orlando.cambridge.org/people...8-c0c970b75e96
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76016851
• https://www.picturesofengland.com/En...ctures/1131480
• From https://www.ststephensgreatwigboroug...truth-revealed
We get:
• Pg 7 of 20 of the following link shows a photo of John Kaye Kendall in a bio about his wife Githa Sowerby (Pg 5 of 20) https://minttheater.org/mint/wp-cont...fordProgam.pdfQuote:
Dum-Dum it turned out was someone different altogether. A search of author pseudonyms quickly revealed it was the pen name of Captain John Kaye Kendall (1869 -1952), who wrote light hearted poems on subjects as diverse as women’s hockey, an elephant’s bath and the best kind of Christmas gift.
A Gunnery Instructor with the Royal Artillery in India, he started writing to banish the tedium of a long colonial posting abroad, and published several books of humorous verse, of dubious quality and now largely forgotten. These included At Odd Moments: A book of Verses and Parodies (1900), In the Hills and other Views (1903), The Crackling of Thorns (1906), A Fool’s Paradise (1910) and Odd Creatures (1915).
On his return from India, he made his name writing poems and articles for Punch (from 1902 onwards) under the pseudonym of Dum-Dum. He married the playwright Githa Sowerby and died in 1952.
What’s surprising is he wrote this poem, not after a visit to the Wigboroughs, but based solely on a newspaper article about them.
Interestingly, the poem was written (and published in Punch) exactly 50 years after the Great English Earthquake of 1884, in which so much damage was caused to Great and Little Wigborough. Was the newspaper article he read about the villages commemorating the anniversary of this important event? It certainly seems a strong possibility.
So, in conclusion, the poem is perhaps disappointingly, but quite definitely, not the work of John Betjeman, but rather that of a less well-known poet and writer, Captain John Kaye Kendall (aka Dum-Dum).
However, this should not detract from its value or sentiment, as a fulsome celebration of the rural idyll, and of the author’s desire, echoed by many of us today, to find a peaceful spot to live at one with nature, away from traffic and the stresses of modern life.
• More on Githa: (start pg 5) https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...ProgramQTG.pdf
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/op...6.womans-work/
• His Mother: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Peard-125
• Some background on Begum: https://www.researchgate.net/publica..._in_South_Asia
Sweet, light, short poem by KG... enjoyed :)
"Even a rock" - Molly Peacock; How I Come to You... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...molly-peacock/
Lololol! If someone badly in need of a goodliterature researcher reads the post above, it might be the end of your retirement!
Through his better known wife and a poem wrongly attributed to a more famous poet! Even Begum from an Indian Zoo was contemplated by the research!
Coming back later! Must try to get at the old version of "Read a Little Poetry" to read your poem. Probably my fault. Author of the site must have detected a massive interest from South America in the poems and thought this was the right time to transform the site in a paid site.
I love to research out of curiosity; JKK seemed worthy of a deeper dive :)
Hmmm... When I first copied the link there was no problem... but when I tried again there was a popup to "subscribe" in a free manner, which I did, so no pay wall for me, but they must be noticing the traffic coming through with their analytics... it's a shame they feel the need to interrupt casual browsing.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Molly Peacock; "How I Come to You"_Wonderful description of a person, starting a new relationship? still with the scars of the old one. I had sawed (and used a lot) the alphabetical list of first lines of the site, so I could read the poem. The second reading was interrupted and I subscribed.
"From blossoms comes". "From Blossoms" by Li-Young Lee
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2020/1...-li-young-lee/
re: MP... I think you're right.
Sweet poem... haven't had a peach in ages... enjoyed :)
"grass is unusual" - Ward Maxwell; grass... https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/grass
Grass- quite an unusual subject for a poem. Enjoyed !
"Helen, thy beauty is to me"."To Helen" by Edgar Allan Poe
https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/helen
Thought it was a simple homage to Helen of Troy - but my curiosity got the better of me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Helen... Enjoyed :)
"In a logged over meadow" - Stephen Meadows; Tenmile... https://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.c...-brigit-truex/
re "To Helen"-Thanks for the enlightening analysis. I had no idea how important this poem is in Poe´s oeuvre. For me it was also just a homage to Helen of Troy.
"Tenmile" -Enjoyed very much. For me a minimalist take on the Indians that were "disappeared" from their own soil.
"THE jewelled steps are already quite white with dew,"."The Jewel Stairs' Grievance" by Ezra Pound
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/pound01.html#10 (10th Pound poem)
"Tenmile" was written by my Gold Country poet friend :)
Interesting choice... enjoyed the poem and the analysis :)
"Kate-a-Whimsies, John-a-Dreams," - William Ernest Henley; Kate-A-Whimsies, John-A-Dreams... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/15039/k...john-a-dreams/
re: Yes, I noticed that he is from Sacramento.I hope there are more poems by him in the net.
"Kate-a-Whimsies..."Well, maybe the poet is just saying that nothing is for ever: neither life, nor love and no one's dreams or whims.
" 'LET little children come to me,' " "ST. LUKE XVIII. 16." by Joanna Baillie
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....18-w0850.shtml