Saturday Lent Poem 46 I cannot tell you how excited I am to be able to include this poem (and tomorrows!) on the blog. Almost the day I started tweeting as LeedsBookClub, I was fortunate enough to become friends with Alice Shapiro (@CrackedPoems). Born in Georgia, USA, she is an accomplished poet, playwright and author. … Continue reading Poetry for Lent – Saturday

Friday Lent Poem 45 22nd A deeply personal choice, this poem is on the mass card for my grandmother. It perfectly captures how I feel about her. With every poem I’ve read in the last six weeks, I’ve been reminded constantly that ‘we read to know we are not alone’. Resurrection Vladimir Holan (Translated by … Continue reading Poetry for Lent – Good Friday

Lenten Poetry Challenge Well, I'm in the last stretch now, and I've enjoyed reading all these so much. I think my personal favourite (so far) is included here - On the back of a photograph. As always, please let me know your thoughts about the poems! Thursday Lent Poem 44 Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon Everyone … Continue reading Poetry for Lent Nos 41-44

Lenten Poetry Challenge Sunday Lent Poem 40 17th Sadness of a Star Guillaume Apollinaire Minerva stepped out calmly from my head And I will be forever crowned with blood There is reason within and sky above my skull Where Goddess you were buckling on your arms Of my misfortunes this is not the worst This … Continue reading Poetry for lent Nos 36-40

Lenten Poetry Challenge Tuesday Lent Poem 35   A Song of the Road Robert Louis Stevenson 1878 The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY? Whene'er I buckle on my pack And foot it gaily in the … Continue reading Poetry for Lent Nos 31-35

Lenten Poetry Challenge   Thursday Lent Poem 30 Iambicum Trimetrum Edmund Spenser 1579               1            Unhappy verse, the witness of my unhappy state,               2              Make thy self flutt'ring wings of thy fast flying               3                Thought, … Continue reading Poetry for Lent Nos 26 – 30

Lenten Poetry Challenge Saturday Lent Poem 25  The Happiest Day Edgar Allan Poe 1827     I.       The happiest day--the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown. II.      Of power! said I? Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas! The … Continue reading Poetry for Lent Nos 21 – 25

Lenten Poetry Challenge   Monday Lent Poem 20  Self Pity D.H. Lawrence 1929 I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. Sunday Lent Poem 19 Invictus W.E. Henley 1875 Out of the night that covers me, Black … Continue reading Poetry for Lent Nos 16 – 20

 Lenten Poetry Challenge    Thursday Lent Poem 15 Leisure William Henry Davies 1911 What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide … Continue reading Poetry for Lent Nos 11 – 15

Lenten Poetry Challenge Saturday Lent Poem 10 Please Mrs Butler Allan Ahlberg 1984 I found a copy of this collection of poems about school in Poverty Aid and just fell in love with this, the 'title track', if you will. Please Mrs. Butler This boy Derek Drew Keeps copying my work, Miss. What shall I … Continue reading Poetry for Lent No 6-10