tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-508831660581588582024-03-13T17:19:00.759-07:00Lyric Poetry ShowcaseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-85037980117092457362023-09-29T13:18:00.001-07:002023-09-29T13:18:50.171-07:00Ode to ChatGPT hello there you are welcome to help yourself to these few wordsi'm writing using a traditional form from exmoor in devonit's known as rivermouth scansion and runs wide and slow and deepthe rhyming scheme, that's been used since the roman occupation, uses a jigsaw of assonances and aspirations expressing the hopesof folk who wait the long winter for a bright sunny springit's a gentle Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-6125968607245448892023-07-10T11:39:00.004-07:002023-08-03T14:09:54.833-07:00Sound of Many Waters - new poems Colin Gibson, who has a few poems here, now has his own blog and is uploading poems to it. His poems are lyrical, thoughtful, soulful. You can find it here Sound of Many WatersUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-40301691937607449582020-04-30T08:05:00.001-07:002020-04-30T08:09:09.994-07:00May is the Maddest MonthTom Rudge's nostalgic poem, Hay, begins with the words "May is the Maddest Month." As we enter a May unlike any most of us have known, it seems a good time to share it. Poem read on the video by the late Charles Gillette, who also features in the film.
May is the maddest month
when the hearts of English men
hunger for the hay
when the hills are shorn, styled and layered
the grass mown, dried Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-13196696091295516632018-10-03T07:01:00.000-07:002018-10-03T07:01:24.444-07:00Chris Warren's Childhood MemoriesChris Warren has published Childhood Memories. This charming collection of poems tells the story of Chris' upbringing in an African country. There are lots of animals, including several snakes.
You can find it at http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/8106119-childhood-memories
You will also find here links to Chris's two books of fantasy poetry: Time Rime and HeartwoodUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-83090649298891632792018-09-18T18:46:00.000-07:002018-09-18T18:46:09.896-07:00Tom Rudge's The Road to DevonTom Rudge has published a new volume entitled The road to Devon.
According to Tom, the road to Devon runs through the county of Somerset. Tom grew up on the borders of the two counties and has spent his life travelling the roads between them. His booklet brings together 11 poems inspired "at least in part" by roads and places on these travels.
It is published by Camless Press, a new specialist Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-15618572747355085582018-09-08T14:43:00.000-07:002018-09-09T17:34:55.458-07:00The Five Live!The Five are live in Derbyshire next Sunday - September 16th 2018.
The event is taking place at 6 pm at Christ Church Parish Church, Litton. Derbyshire. SK17 8RAUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-55247178375907066742018-09-04T08:08:00.000-07:002018-09-04T08:08:51.915-07:00Domenico's GateDomenico's Gate is the new book of poems by Simon Iredale.
The book spans all Simon's adult life and rages in topic from Oedipus to the Great Birmingham Bin Strike. Simon Iredale is one of those writers who carry great learning lightly. Follow the trail of his poems on this site and you find writing that's a great first read - but well worth extra time spent in pursuit of the writer's mindUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-21112202161331584832018-09-03T18:00:00.004-07:002018-09-03T18:00:45.869-07:00Coming soon...Poetry doesn't cease in the heart of the poet. It gestates and grows. Silence is not absence, it is meditation. The hiatus here hasn't meant we've abandoned lyric poetry. Some of those quoted on this site have finished their work. Others work to the beat of the years, not the days.
There will be updates over the next few days.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-60270417798530363492014-08-04T05:53:00.002-07:002014-08-04T05:53:28.871-07:00In Praise of AirSpotted on the side of a building at Sheffield University, this poem, In Praise of Air, by Simon Armitage
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-31360105812131574832014-02-07T09:27:00.000-08:002014-02-07T09:27:15.004-08:00The Somerset floodsGlobal Warming. Tom Rudge's poem about the Somerset Levels from 2008
http://www.lyricpoetry.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/global-warming.htmlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-80150476639444053942013-09-03T09:00:00.001-07:002013-09-03T09:00:01.665-07:00The Riding ManThe picture is
Of a young man, attempting
To ride a horse.
His pose is strained, half
Crouched in the saddle, painfully
Aware of being observed.
I am told, by those
That should know, that
This is me at twenty-three.
But since then every
Cell in this fragile human
Form has been altered by
Nature's alchemy.
And if the self is an
Emergent property of time
And 'I' am only 'I' through the
Chance Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-75992451940266886012013-09-03T09:00:00.000-07:002013-09-03T09:00:06.190-07:00Auden on time and ageLullaby
Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.
Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-49085310246370589372013-09-01T15:40:00.002-07:002013-09-01T15:40:53.950-07:00Coming up...Coming up... two poems on the theme of life, time, ageing, who we are ..one old, one new. You'll just have to read the poemsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-88760260307967020312012-12-20T17:38:00.003-08:002012-12-20T17:38:56.284-08:00Cows
Cows
by Tom Rudge
There'll be cows in heaven
Jersey cows and Guernseys
Ayrshires and Friesians too
mooing and grazing
cows with short horns and short coats
and long horns and long coats
chewing and lazing
when you call they'll follow
they'll skip at the sound of your voice
Athena-eyed, they'll lick the rain from your face
and, tingle-tongued, the salt from your hands
across Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-91573385567901234812012-08-05T15:41:00.003-07:002012-08-05T15:41:59.783-07:00A 30th Birthday PoemDylan Thomas's A Poem In October, written for his 30th birthday, 1944
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-9757364699106839712012-07-15T18:20:00.001-07:002012-07-15T19:29:39.488-07:00Rock poetryAmong all rock groups, the Moody Blues regarded themselves as poets. The band's spin off group, the Blue Jays had a similar approach to writing.
I Dreamed Last Night is a fine example of their writing and has superb lyrical composition - but does it stand as a poem? As a song it appeals to universal themes of longing and lost love - but is the writer telling his own story or is it merely a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-55635701736899863822012-05-21T12:13:00.000-07:002012-05-21T12:13:01.181-07:00Radiance FestivalOn Saturday - May 26th - members of The Five will be reading at the Radiance Festival at St Matthew's Church, Church Hill, Walsall, UK. WS1 3DG
Radiance is described as a Christian Spirituality Fair. Admission is £5 for the day, running from 10am to 3.30pm.
Chris Warren, Colin Gibson and Simon Iredale, of The Five, are scheduled to read at 11.45am.
Chris Warren will also be leading a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Walsall, West Midlands WS1 3DG, UK52.5813661 -1.977819652.5789541 -1.9827550999999999 52.583778099999996 -1.9728841tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-41215057595976970512012-05-11T03:57:00.001-07:002012-05-11T03:57:34.101-07:00The music-makersWe are the music-makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous storyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-39348753240080490972012-04-14T15:41:00.003-07:002012-04-14T15:43:17.098-07:00Lyric festival
Check out the Sheffield Lyric Festival:
"Now in its second year, Lyric is Sheffield's only festival of poetry, music and the spoken word and will take place from Wednesday 9 May to Friday 11 May 2012 at the University of Sheffield."
It is organised by poet Simon Armitage, professor of poetry in Sheffield.
More details here:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2012/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-55292619439564777282012-02-17T17:40:00.000-08:002012-04-08T00:34:11.074-07:00Poems to make you thinkHere is a collection of thought-provoking videos of poetry and lyrics. There's a great Dylan song and some up-dated material that's already been on this site. These are poets thinking about life, the universe and everything. Any ideas for additions welcome.
Full listing:
Spring - The Innocence Mission
Stephen Lovatt - title unknown
Gates of Eden - Bob Dylan
On Burnham Beach - Tom Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-61721545003093146912011-12-29T05:53:00.000-08:002011-12-29T05:53:52.628-08:00New anthologyThere's now an anthology of new poems out by The Five, the group of poets who have contributed many of the poems on this site. In the past we've promoted live readings by the group. There are going to be more this year.
They first published together in the late 1970s and appeared with a band called Candle Factory, whose single album, Nightshift, now fetches largish sums on e-bay. They published Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-75563420099033242772011-12-25T14:00:00.000-08:002011-12-29T05:55:03.785-08:00Christmas morning
Curled together
on Christmas morning
we're the comma
in the year
an apostrophe
of mutual possession
a quote mark that says
the conversation is ended
and is beginning anew
Tom Rudge, Christmas 2011
Copyright: By application
Last by this writerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-46232844113962683362011-11-20T13:31:00.001-08:002011-11-20T13:34:37.215-08:00Suggest a Dylan lyric..I've been trying to find an appropriate Bob Dylan lyric - words that stand out on the page as a poem in their own right. Dylan is meant to be the great lyricist, the contemporary song writer about whom dissertations have been written. Indeed sometimes he wrote poetry without songs - although unlike Leonard Cohen he was not a poet first and foremost. I confess - I have found the search difficult.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-48916999221522072722011-11-14T09:00:00.000-08:002011-11-14T09:00:05.386-08:00Galactic LovepoemSome video has emerged on Youtube of Adrian Henri and Liverpool Scene (a rock poetry band) performing live.
This is Galactic Lovepoem
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Liverpool, UK53.4107766 -2.977838353.335059099999995 -3.1357668000000003 53.4864941 -2.8199098tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50883166058158858.post-48996770637491204512011-11-13T17:00:00.000-08:002011-11-13T17:00:00.695-08:00SpringLook out for Spring,
the life underground,
the life underground.
The thawing and the overflow.
Oh early, early in the morning
we’ll go.
Seven shades of green
are painted on your door,
painted on your door,
the field alive under the snow.
Oh early, early in the morning.
we’ll go.
Oh world of rooftops,
hearing one field song.
The walk in raincoats,
the wait for Easter, Tom.
We are awake or Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0