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Poet Kevin Morris Featured on Sally Cronin’s Blog

I was delighted to have my recently published poetry collection, “Passing Through: Some Thoughts on Life and Death” featured on Sally Cronin’s blog  https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpre...

Dream or Reality

In my dreams

It often seems

To me

That what I feel

And sometimes see

Is reality.

 

 

When death steals

Up on me

Will it simply  seem

That I dream?

The reality

Is unknowable to me.

Tell Me Not Here, it Needs Not Saying by A. E. Housman

In my place of work there is a poetry club of which I am a member. We meet on a monthly basis and discuss 2-3 poems. In May, the club where kind enough to allow me to read several poems from my recently published collection, “Passing Through: Some Thoughts on Life and Death”.

 

At next week’s meeting we will be discussing Housman’s “Tell Me Not Here, it Needs Not Saying”. The poem (which is one of my favourites) was suggested by me. You can find a reading of it by the poet Andrew Motion here htt...

Matt’s Cat

When a young man known as Matt

Went and bought a very large cat,

An elderly person called Brian

Yelled something about a lion!

And that was the end of that!

Eliot’s Typist

Eliot’s typist is glad when its over.

She who leaves me

Has never read

The Wasteland

And would not understand Prufrock.

Yet she knows the loneliness of men

And slippery mermaids

Who drown with them.

Early Morning Birds

When, at 4 am,

I awoke, the birds spoke

To me, bringing peace

And a return to sleep.

Demons

When the religious persist

In saying demons exist,

I ask which

Demons created Auschwitz?

Whilst Engrossed in Wuthering Heights

Whilst engrossed in Wuthering Heights

I saw a young lady in tights.

I said to her, “Rose!

You are wearing no clothes!”,

She said, “no! I am wearing some tights!”

 

The Secret Dragon, by Esther Chilton

KM: I am pleased to have Esther Chilton as a guest on my blog today. Here is Esther to tell you about her forthcoming children’s book:

I’m delighted to be here on Kevin’s blog today, bringing you details of my new children’s book for 5-7 year olds. It’s called The Secret Dragon and is the first in the Saffy’s Secret Quest series. Here’s a little bit more about it:

The blurb  

When Saffy discovers a dragon statue at the bottom of her garden, her boring summer holiday becomes full of excitement.

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The Second World War Had It’s Poets too

As pointed out in this article, https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-second-world-war-had-its-poets-too/, the poets of the First World War are better known than those of World War II. I am, however, familiar with several of the poets (Keith Douglas for example) mentioned in this article. I shall certainly be adding this book to my books to be read list.