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“Leonie” by Lucy Dougan [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Lucy Dougan’s “Leonie” speaks to the strange charisma that inanimate objects can assume over time when they share our space with us. A sculpture of an anonymous artist’s model, after living with the family for decades, suffering “endless room changes, / the tectonic jolts of whole-house moves”, becomes almost sacred to the speaker. Having borne…
Bearded Me | JD DeHart
There is bearded me and skeptic me and nonchalant me usually, these all come out in winter like a bear warmer climates bring reflective me and shaven me and in-between me autumn brings solemn academic me reading me bookish chin-rubbing me. The post Bearded Me | JD DeHart appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to…
The Smiths – I’d Risk My Driving License For You
This poem was written for a collection I did 2010/11 with poems written inspired by groups and singers I love as if they’d written the poem or lyrics. Remembered this poem because of Andy Rourke’s passing this weekend, fact he was only 59 like me, and the photo was taken in a cemetery in honour…
Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot [by Lewis Saul]
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Tahiti Trot (1928) Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, cond. (4:08) Vincent Youmans composed Tea for Two for his musical No, No, Nanette in 1927. Shostakovich and his friend, the conductor Nicolai Malko, recalled hearing the tune in ’27 at the Meyerhold Theatre in Moscow in a play called Roar, China. In one…
Patience Poemlet | JD DeHart
The spider sitting on the ledge, fat and hidden, not even bothering with the work of a web, waiting and never speaking its mind. More at http://jasondehartjustliving.blogspot.com. The post Patience Poemlet | JD DeHart appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
The Legend | Indraneel Choudhuri
An ordinary man covered in a cage of armour, No where could you find a face calmer, Than was his in the face of battle, Nothing and no one could him rattle. And on he marched with sword in hand, A single face in this massive band, Of soldiers and farmers walking side by side,…