Super Fragile poem
SuperFragile Calorific Expeditor Douchebag’s
Certainly a name to suit those creatures using nosebags
Bound to have the voice one gets with nostrils clamped by clothes pegs
SuperFragile Calorific Expeditor Douchebag
Copyright 13 March 2009 Peter Fairbrother
(and 01/01/1993 Wilfred Toilet, aka Wilfred John)
lunar poetics
a poetry story related to the first moon landing:
Neil Armstrong missed out an “a” and did not say “one small step for a man” when he set foot on the Moon in 1969, a linguistic analysis has confirmed.
The researchers show for the first time that he intended to say “a man” and that the “a” [...]
Duffy and politics
yippee – a meaty start as poet laureate
Politics by Carol Ann Duffy
How it makes of your face a stone
that aches to weep, of your heart a fist,
clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tongue
an iron latch with no door. How it makes of your right hand
a gauntlet, a glove-puppet of the left, of your [...]
The peace of wild things
The peace of wild things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night to the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace [...]
Eleven poems!
‘Eleven poems!’, ‘An interesting post at fellow bloggers site:http://andymckenzie.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-11-poems-of-all-time.html
but why eleven?