tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post175108423538800551..comments2024-03-28T09:37:34.133+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: OctoberYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-71372666497760085262012-10-19T03:21:13.726+01:002012-10-19T03:21:13.726+01:00I got as far as "And the knock of sailing boa...I got as far as "And the knock of sailing boats on the net webbed wall " and I thought 'this sounds like Thomas. <br /><br />And it was. Beautiful. I loved it. Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-69781179353045250472012-10-18T11:21:09.413+01:002012-10-18T11:21:09.413+01:00DAVE I think you have approached the poem in the r...DAVE I think you have approached the poem in the right spirit. It has a deliberately "obtuse" character like memory itself. This poem is not a mind puzzle to be unravelled. It is meant to make you "feel" a mood.<br />RHYMES WITH PLAGUE See above...but pleased you made the effort to get to grips with it. Perhaps you tried too hard instead of letting the words wash over you like a tide.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-16811206306281628852012-10-18T08:20:50.428+01:002012-10-18T08:20:50.428+01:00YP, as your other readers commented, the 'poem...YP, as your other readers commented, the 'poem' was a bit difficult to understand as poetry but as I read its message it brought thoughts of my youth back. Thanks - DaveDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06851174879441602754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-68943565261916000782012-10-18T02:45:10.724+01:002012-10-18T02:45:10.724+01:00Maybe Thomas should have stuck with villanelles. ...Maybe Thomas should have stuck with villanelles. This poem is almost as opaque as some of E.E. Cumming's poems. I just wish it communicated a little more clearly. It's beautiful, but I don't understand it. I'm sorry if I am sounding like a philistine.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-60335595926439203042012-10-18T00:27:16.626+01:002012-10-18T00:27:16.626+01:00EARL GRAY
Oh, Earl John Gray
What can I say?
I...EARL GRAY <br />Oh, Earl John Gray<br />What can I say?<br />I'm happy that you passed this way<br />To make a comment on my post<br />While sipping tea and munching toast<br />The poem was by a Swansea lad<br />Born in the same year as my dad<br />Oh Dylan Thomas was his name<br />His poems earned him worldwide fame<br />He died in Nineteen Fifty Three<br />The year in which I came to be<br />So Dearest Earl please do not hide<br />The poetry you keep inside<br />Recite it at the Eisteddfod<br />And folk will shout - "You clever sod!"Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-43712575260210686722012-10-17T20:33:05.105+01:002012-10-17T20:33:05.105+01:00I am not a poem (ish) person but that was thoughtf...I am not a poem (ish) person but that was thoughtful!<br />now all these poems YP<br />I hope you are not going ALL Brian Sewell ON us?<br />I dont want to lose that spit and Male version of Downton's Mrs PatmoreJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.com