Summer is here folks. And whilst I am all for serious workshopping and high literary ambition, I do think this can be consistent with a certain light heartedness. Imho we could do with lightening the mood around here a little. It is perfectly okay to muck about a bit.
Or quite a lot.
Seth
Summer is here and...
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ray miller
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Whilst I've no objection to high jinks and japery, my own special plea is that we ought to be more patriotic on this poetry forum. I look in vain for the stirring ballads of our great days when giants like Kipling bestrode the earth. Where are the flag-waving emojis? Where the paeans to the Queen's hat? We must rouse ourselves, gentlemen!
I'm out of faith and in my cups
I contemplate such bitter stuff.
I contemplate such bitter stuff.
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Antcliff
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Ah, yes. The hat...suddenly some remoaners are born-again monarchists.Where the paeans to the Queen's hat?
Makes me wonder whether we have ever had an overtly patriotic poem posted at PG. You are right, Ray. Where is the Light Brigade et al?
We fray into the future, rarely wrought
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
Richard Wilbur
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
Richard Wilbur