Society

Perspective: ‘To an Intra-mural Rat’ BY MARIANNE MOORE

You make me think of many men
Once met, to be forgot again
Or merely resurrected
In a parenthesis of wit
That found them hastening through it
Too brisk to be inspected.

by Marianne Moore

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Blog 11/01/19

Three years ago I wrote here that I would dedicate myself more to this website, to this blog. Three years ago was also the last time I wrote a blog post here, or anywhere now that I come to think of it. I could blame disability or schooling or general life, and I’d have some pretty reasonable points. But I also could have focused myself and prioritised. I didn’t.
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Perspective: ‘Three a.m.’ BY JILL MCDONOUGH

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57192 (more…)

PERSPECTIVE: ‘The Sound of Silence’ by Paul Simon

My Old Friend (more…)

Perspective: ‘The Dead’ by Rupert Brooke

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176708 (more…)

Perspective: ‘Famous’ by Naomi Shihab Nye

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177521 (more…)

Blog 03/01/16

I haven’t posted on this website in quite a while. I have been writing poetry, but I haven’t been posting. I think this is mainly because I haven’t been recording what I’ve been writing. I type it all into my notes app on my phone with the intent of getting to it at some point… eventually… (more…)