G'Day from OZ,
Welcome to my virtual patio. As you can see from my photo, I've been put out to pasture.
I really do appreciate your visits. Take a chair and sit a while. There is a small bookshelf by your chair; read anything that interests you.
There's tea [your choice, Irish Breakfast or Russian Caravan] or coffee [again your choice, Goroka or Blue Mountain] on the serving table. [Ya' gotta' bring your own sugar, boyo.] Arrowroot biscuits in the tin. Help youself. Ta.
My favorite poets? Robert Frost and Dylan Thomas. [and sometime the other Dylan]
If I have a philosophy for writing poetry it would be this -
"In My Craft or Sullen Art" by Dylan Thomas
In my craft or sullen art
exercised in this still night
when only the moon rages
and the lovers lie abed
with all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
not for ambition or bread
or the strut or trade of arms
on the ivory stages
but for the common wages
of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
from the raging moon I write
on these spindrift pages
nor for the towering dead
with their nightingales and psalms
but for the lovers, their arms
round the griefs of the ages,
who pay no praise or wages
nor heed my craft or sullen art.
Do I read my own poems? Not too much; some of them are really bad and I don't want to be reminded!
But here are 10 I'd own up to any day; keeping in mind of course that pride goeth before a fall!
1. Uillean Those Pipes they are
2. The Barrow Waits Upon The Crofter's Wife
3. My Arboreal Senses Born Deciduous
4. Riding Thermals
5. Requien in a Small Town
6. All These Be Poetry
7. Avian Calligraphy
8. The English Publican's Complaint
9. Sharing the Wonderment of Words
10.Authenticity
Well, thanks for dropping by. I do waffle on.......sorry.
So, I guess "I'll call my dog and I'll take the truck and I'll drive on into town..." [Red Velvet, by Gordon Lightfoot]
James Gagiikwe [pronounced "Ga-zhe-kw"]
Welcome to my virtual patio. As you can see from my photo, I've been put out to pasture.
I really do appreciate your visits. Take a chair and sit a while. There is a small bookshelf by your chair; read anything that interests you.
There's tea [your choice, Irish Breakfast or Russian Caravan] or coffee [again your choice, Goroka or Blue Mountain] on the serving table. [Ya' gotta' bring your own sugar, boyo.] Arrowroot biscuits in the tin. Help youself. Ta.
My favorite poets? Robert Frost and Dylan Thomas. [and sometime the other Dylan]
If I have a philosophy for writing poetry it would be this -
"In My Craft or Sullen Art" by Dylan Thomas
In my craft or sullen art
exercised in this still night
when only the moon rages
and the lovers lie abed
with all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
not for ambition or bread
or the strut or trade of arms
on the ivory stages
but for the common wages
of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
from the raging moon I write
on these spindrift pages
nor for the towering dead
with their nightingales and psalms
but for the lovers, their arms
round the griefs of the ages,
who pay no praise or wages
nor heed my craft or sullen art.
Do I read my own poems? Not too much; some of them are really bad and I don't want to be reminded!
But here are 10 I'd own up to any day; keeping in mind of course that pride goeth before a fall!
1. Uillean Those Pipes they are
2. The Barrow Waits Upon The Crofter's Wife
3. My Arboreal Senses Born Deciduous
4. Riding Thermals
5. Requien in a Small Town
6. All These Be Poetry
7. Avian Calligraphy
8. The English Publican's Complaint
9. Sharing the Wonderment of Words
10.Authenticity
Well, thanks for dropping by. I do waffle on.......sorry.
So, I guess "I'll call my dog and I'll take the truck and I'll drive on into town..." [Red Velvet, by Gordon Lightfoot]
James Gagiikwe [pronounced "Ga-zhe-kw"]
- Member since January 22, 2008.
- I am a man (Australia)
- When I'm not writing, I'm Retired .
- I have 199 comments, 90 archived poems, 44 poems, 39 stories
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Brian Balzer : Hello Gagiikwe on January 12, 2009This just isn't right! You have been here nearly a year and no one has signed your guest book to welcome you? I can understand that when it is someone that joins and reads but never comments but you have left sveral. Ok then, even though you have been here much longer than I have, Welcome to sharepoetry! I hope you enjoy the site.
BKB
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on untitled by , on November 22, 2009
we are always, undeniably, here
Nicely woven snapshots, accurate and telling. Captures every 'greasy spoon' I've ever been in.
For your readers the rewrite was worth the effort.
language: 3, rhythm: 3, subject: 2, tone: 5, form: 4.
I enjoy the word-smithing you have done here. However, for my old brain, it is too erudite. I'll stick with the sourdough and prickly pear, OK?
Have a great Christmas vacation. Felice Navidad.