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- RIOUPEROUX
- by kendrive
- in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk
- 45 days old
- I am returning to Flecker for just one day with this descriptive poem of a 'small untidy village' in the French Alps. RIOUPEROUX High and solemn mountains guard Riouperoux, —Small untidy village where the river drives a mill: Frail as wood anemones, white and frail were you, And drooping a little, like the slender daffodil. Oh I will go to... more
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- MORE FLECKER
- by kendrive
- in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk
- 47 days old
- I have had a request for more poems written by James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915). So here are a further two. They are a little morbid I am afraid - but that's what happens when you become old! NO COWARD'S SONG I am afraid to think about my death, When it shall be, and whether in great pain I shall rise up and fight the air for breath Or calmly... more
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- INTO THE FUTURE
- by kendrive
- in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk
- 50 days old
- I am continuing with the Flecker with this poem where a poet sends a message to another 1,000 years in the future. TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE I who am dead a thousand years, And wrote this sweet archaic song, Send you my words for messengers The way I shall not pass along. I care not if you bridge the seas, Or ride secure the cruel sky, Or... more
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- JOURNEYING
- by kendrive
- in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk
- 51 days old
- I am staying with James Elroy Flecker with his poem about a journey to Samarkand - one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, prospering from its location on the trade route between China and Europe. However, the poem is also a parable about how we should face that greater journey - Life THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND We are the Pilgrims... more
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- GRAVIS DULCIS IMMUTABILIS
- by kendrive
- in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk
- 52 days old
- My parents, both born in 1904, were Edwardians and I have decided to follow my series of Victorian poets with a selection of poems written in that era. But when exactly was that? This is from Wikipedia: The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910. The death of... more
