In The Beginning.
In the beginning
There was
Walter de la Mare,
Robert Louis Stevenson
And
A.A. Milne
Rose Fyleman was there too
With
The Oxford Book of English Verse.
And there was a train
In the beginning,
Made out of chairs
Placed in a row.
And children,
Lots of children
Laughing,
As the words got faster.
In the beginning
Words made sense,
And sensibilities were easy to understand.
And that was in the beginning
When words floated around in the air,
And sometimes
Ended up inside my head.
And it was easy
To join them up
One to one
And twos to threes.
And often they joined up so fast
That they tumbled over one another
In joy.
And that was just the beginning.
When I was merely a five year old, my mother took me to a house down the road towards the city.
That was the very beginning of my relationship with poetry.
I studied every week with this teacher until I was in my early 20s.
He instilled in me a love of rhyme and rhythm.
And also a deeper understanding of why people write poetry.
He had his favourite poets and playrights and I became part of that love.
Ibsen, Frost,Strindberg, MacNiece,Yeats,Whitman as well as the English Romantics .
What a priviledged experience!
This is linked to dVerse Poetics on dVerse.
When I was merely a five year old, my mother took me to a house down the road towards the city.
That was the very beginning of my relationship with poetry.
I studied every week with this teacher until I was in my early 20s.
He instilled in me a love of rhyme and rhythm.
And also a deeper understanding of why people write poetry.
He had his favourite poets and playrights and I became part of that love.
Ibsen, Frost,Strindberg, MacNiece,Yeats,Whitman as well as the English Romantics .
What a priviledged experience!
This is linked to dVerse Poetics on dVerse.
