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74IF - Kipling - an appreciation
Kipling, and IF, are not threatened by their critics or parodists. The poem was voted number one in the UK publication "The Nation's Favourite Poems". Kipling's IF has wide appeal. Like Burns before him, Kipling wrote masterful but accessible and genuinely popular poetry.
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69Tattoo Poem
Choose your tattoo artist with care - especially if he is working on a part you can't see...
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74The Gentle Art of Pastiche
Pastiche is the name given to a poetic imitation. It is not quite the same as parody which tends to make fun of the original, also by copying but by hamming it up for comic or satirical effect. A true pastiche is affectionate and respectful to the original.
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74Thomas Hardy - an Appreciation of a Great English Poet
From the writer of Tess and Jude, one would not expect a lot of jollity or gaiety, and indeed Hardy's poems tend to be sombre in tone, though often leavened with surprising metrical patterns borrowed from his local folk and church music.
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73Zen & the Art of Paragliding
Paraglider's ramble through his past. The story of the flying apples. The burning brush. Travels and more travels. Poetry and the Paranormal. Beer and Buses. No fish, this time around.
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84How to write a Limerick
The trouble with wearing the tartan /is everyone thinks you're a Spartan /who relishes cold /in the goolies. (I'm told /the best way to heat 'em is fartan!) A limerick is a short verse in a well-defined form which...
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72The Stations of the Cross - a Meditation
Though not Roman Catholic myself, a love of great art and architecture has taken me to some of Europe's finest churches and cathedrals, where I became interested in the Stations of the Cross, or Via Crucis.
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68A Scottish Halloween, and 'Three Gallus Brithers' - a Scots Ballad for Halloween
There's a fine old Scottish (and Irish) tradition of ballads and story-telling. And at Halloween the old ghost stories feature large. Here's a latter-day tale of strange happenings around the witching hour, or perhaps, closing time.
24 comments74The Disappearing Volcanic Islands, Paper & Garagula
Paper was a volcanic island close to the French protectorate, Car de Bord, in the South Pacific. The 1779 eruption was cataclysmic. The island, with its small populace, was wholly obliterated and would have passed from human ken had it not been for...
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73Seven Sonnets for Valentine's Day
I thought I'd mark the occasion with a collection of a few of my poems on a romantic theme. I hope you find something to enjoy in them. This first one, Travellers, is about a chance encounter in a commuter train...
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