The Cock-a-hoop Ghost
The cock-a-hoop ghost I can’t get WP to reblog this, so I’m pasting it and recommending a visit to …
Category Archives: Remarkable Verse and Prose From Earth Inhabitants.
Sometimes I feel it is my fate to chase you screaming up a tower
(I’m late so far as the theme, I know, sue me (if you can find me)).This poem made me laugh …
Devouring Diction
English Flavors by Laure-Anne Bosselaar I love to lick English the way I licked the hard round licorice sticks the …
The Scullery Maid
Superb poetry from Mike Steeden here; my reblogs always beggar up so I’m pasting it along with the linkage to …
Illuminating souls across the aether
Cemeteries are high on Esme’s list of favourite places to visit (along with The Transgalactic Dutch Pancake House – each …
Illuminate Me.
*Attributed to Anton Chekhov – http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/30/moon-glint/
Before you, The sun and the moon were paper-thin plates
You can feel the teeth of this one. Enjoy. Rime Riche – Monica Ferrell You need me like ice needs …
Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll
All hail the year as it stands, sits or lounges depending upon it’s ever altering moods. And to celebrate that …
The Moral of the Tail . . . Don’t Vex a Poet My Dear (Filth invovled)
Is it fair to judge a poet’s nature from their verses alone? Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84 BC–c.54 BC) thought not, …
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows.
Sublime stuff, a wonderful lack of punctuation too. One huge expulsion of rawly charged air. Lovesong – Ted Hughes He …
Rest in stars Stephen.
The Moomins: Tove Jansson’s feminist legacy – Fillyjonks, Thingummy and Bob and Hattifateners aplenty.
Interesting article here about the writer Tove Jannson, a favourite of Esme’s from many a moon ago. I have all …
Oceans Remain a Kindly Blue Beside the Tattered Shores
Next a poem by a nobel winner no less, and one whose imagery I particularly enjoy. I hope you find …
I Wait Until Once More the Fascinating Ripping Takes Place
I found André Breton’s poems whilst peering into the depths of the aether during the darkest hours of the night …
Finding the Quick
I feel the last two lines of this one set the whole piece ablaze. There’s a link to more through …
This is the Place by Tony Walsh
The poem below was read out at last night at the evening vigil in memory of those people murdered in …
Humorous readings for social parties – Maistly Scotch 1882
Esme, deciding she needed a small treat went a wandering along the shores of the Bay of E, and came across …
Hollowed out and scurrilous
I came across the following poem the other day and was struck by how tight the composition is. Love as a vexatious …
Inextricably Synchronically Ablaze
“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we …
Pegs.
Children growing up in the UK during the seventies were oft exposed to the following poetry and its ilk. I …
John Fuller – 1937
A few chosen bits pilfered from his ‘Valentine‘. I like your cheeks, I like your nose, I like the way …
Simply Sensational Cynthia
Cynthia Jobin. A fine poet and truly lovely lady who wrote here on WordPress passed away during December, and I …
As She is Spoke
In 1855 a Portuguese chap named Senhor Pedro Carolino took it upon himself to write a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book …
Bad Bear’s Knicketies Were Terrible Tore
Twice Times – – Alan Alexander Milne There were Two Little Bears who lived in a Wood, And one of …
