Idle Pursuits, Blog Tour, If Byron Were Alive Today

This is the second week, 13 February, 2017 of the part of the blog tour for my poetry collection, Idle Pursuits, where I share and discuss some of my favorite poems from the, collection.  This week it is the poem, If Byron Were Alive Today:

If Byron were alive today

He’d be driving a red Ferrari.

A real ‘Don Juan’ he’d be that is to say

And be living in Hawaii.

He wouldn’t write about ‘roving by the moon’

But be cruising every strip.

For every lady he would swoon

And boy, would he be hip.

He’d hang out at every club and so

No Grecian hero with a cause to fight

Nor a Lord so, ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know,’

But more like a rock star partying every night.

     Byron is another one of my favorite Romantic poets.  I especially like his poems, ‘We’ll Go No More A’roving’ and Childe Harold.  With this poem one can see the humor in life, as it is a funny idea of Byron being alive today and what he’d be like in a modern world.

     The humor in the poem is captured with some non-sensical rhyme: Ferrari and Hawaii; and Byron’s imagined actions: ‘cruising every strip’ and ‘a rock star partying every night.’  But like life there is also a serious side with references to Byron’s works within the poem.

     There are also some more humorous poems in the collection, which I think can be a good approach to life–it can be helpful to be silly at times!  Humor can be found in some of my other works as well, such as the upcoming Mr. Austen and later Kate Hawkins also has some humorous elements.

To read more full poetry samples from Idle Pursuits or for more information please visit my website at:  http://www.lpkirkbride.com.

     Please feel free to join me for the next installment of this part of the tour with one more favorite poem from the book 20 February, 2017.  Hope to see you then!

–L.P. Kirkbride