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Some of my favourite poems , either for the content, or the form, or the fact they come to life when they leap off the page and onto the tongue...
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Some of my favourite poems , either for the content, or the form, or the fact they come to life when they leap off the page and onto the tongue and into the ear.
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6 FEB 2019 · A tanka poem is a longer haiku - 5 lines with 5,7,5,7,7 syllables
6 FEB 2019 · from the Tao Te Ching, the Way.
6 FEB 2019 · Sadly this is a poem that sprang to mind on several hopeful occasions in my youth. The loved ones didn't walk on my dreams, just walked away in another direction and in such a manner I didn't care to note if they were treading softly or not.
6 FEB 2019 · My father's favourite poem and the last one he ever heard before he drifted into painkiller sleep and succumbed to lung cancer. It was read to him by a Filipino nurse, who resourcefully whipped out her phone and googled Innisfree when he asked her to read it.
4 FEB 2019 · Written on the flight home from Denpassar, after my first visit to Bali in 1980
4 FEB 2019 · A fantasy. a fiction. Goh Chok Tong (Singapore's second Prime Minister) dancing on a bar top? With (Lee) Hsien Loong (Prime Minister #3) and Tony Tan (Deputy PM and future President) and Abdullah Tarmuggi (Speaker of the House)??!! Dream on! Enjoy!
4 FEB 2019 · Written for a drama at CHIJ St Nichholas Girls School about the changing roles of women in singapore, the starting point for this is very definitely Gilbert and Sullivan's song in The Mikado. But scrub away the comedy and see what's underneath . . .
3 FEB 2019 · This is a traditional English folksong which I know through the wonderful performances of Tim Hart and Maddy Prior
3 FEB 2019 · This is the original, not the Simon and Garfunkel text from their wonderful song-version.
3 FEB 2019 · I was once a school teacher, so timetables have long had a resonance with me.
Some of my favourite poems , either for the content, or the form, or the fact they come to life when they leap off the page and onto the tongue...
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Some of my favourite poems , either for the content, or the form, or the fact they come to life when they leap off the page and onto the tongue and into the ear.
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