Meeting poets I am disconcerted sometimes
by the colour of their socks
the suspicion of a wig
the wasp in the voice
and an air, sometimes, of dankness.
Best to meet in poems:
cool speckled shells
in which one hears
a sad but distant sea.
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This is a collection of OPPs (other people's poems) posted by me, David McKelvie.
Copyright is often infringed. Please don't sue me - I'm poor.
At the end of each post is a link to a contents page - this lists all the poets featured here. You could also click here for it if you want.
Have a browse and an enjoy.
I also take suggestions for poems to add - please get in touch if you have any! (Remove the spaces from this: deemikay @ gmail.com)
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- Adam's Complaint by Denise Levertov
- Meeting Poets by Eunice de Souza
- The Poet Walking by Ivor Gurney
- The Incense Bearers by Ivor Gurney
- Hallaig by Sorley MacLean
- Two translations of Pangur Ban (anon.)
- I Am by John Clare
- Language has not the power by John Clare
- The Cool Web by Robert Graves
- The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Moonrise by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Wodwo by Ted Hughes
- The Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice
- The Unexplorer by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Visitor by Les Murray
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5 comments:
marvellous! thru this poem u've just abt summed up the precious favour u're doing us thru ur blog..
without any autobiographical blurb on its poet, or the explanatory notes on it, the poem stands naked in all its glory...and it's upto us to hear our own sad distant sea resonating thru its lines...
Yes, but this is what I would call an easy poem - easy to understand, easy to relate to, easy to connect with etc. etc. I can see very easily why a person would choose this one without any word of introduction or explanation or other embroidery. That doesn't stop it being a very good poem (I don't see 'easy' as an insult...most of mine are probably in that category for a lot of readers). Other poems though make me think 'why on earth would a person choose that?' and of course I can try and work it out for myself...but will I? Sometimes yes, sometimes no...
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Will anybody help me in understanding whether the second stanza of the poem is about poets or about poems
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