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Jane Austen’s heroines –(ah, dearest Jane…)
show a man you have a mind,and you may catch his heart..and men –flowers, a poem, a compliment,something of beautyto show you have a heart,may bring you to her mind..so poetry:meaning is beauty to the mind,beauty is meaning to the heart.
I’m hooking all my tenters,
mandering my gerries –just need a standard for my bog!
Everyone but poets
would acknowledge it – you were, and I guess still are,the most famous and popular poet ofthe 20th century – to Americans at least;though since we’re now into the 21st century,it’s appropriate that you’re being pushed hard, even overtaken,at least in the charts here on Poemhunter.comby the Afro-American and Spanish-American poets;and your ‘The Road Not…
The latest European edict from Brussels
must have a passport, with photo…(our local brewerystill used them for local deliveries –accountants proved them cheaper;and of course, great publicity)How many horsescan you get in onephoto-booth?And they’ll need quite a few moreshit-hotpassport inspectorsso watch that arab stallionstrolling so casuallyonto the cross-Channel ferry –might he….?
Such a fine morning sight –
for extinction as they later werebut this time for preservation – a long linepatiently stretching into the distanceas far as mind could seesometimes shifting quietlyfrom one leg to the otheror from four legs to threeor stretching a winghungry to fly – but where?and one man blessedradiant in his duty, awedas that great ship expandeda boundless…
These are the strange and dull and heavy days
we seldom spare a thought for what ordealour brothers and sisters, basking in the summer sunare passing through in mind…)For children, these are precious days, of course –waking each morning to the knowledge of new toys—(premature, by orthodox tradition – a birth, of course,but not yet the presents that are dueto celebrate the Epiphany, the…