As promised we are moving on this week in our poetic survey of animals loved by and owned by readers ( Read more... )

As promised a second week on birds this week, but this time not pet parrots but an attempted baby bird rescue in the garden.Robert Frost leaves the outcome open- and leaves his fellow Americans,and the rest of us, a powerful metaphor.I got to know this poem and much other Frost better after the lovely eglantine_br gave me an illustrated collection of his poems ( Read more... )

TSP would like to use today's column to wish kittycallum reader of and contributor to the column, a very happy Birthday.

The lovely estevenis our latest recruit here at TSP.She spent a peaceful Sunday afternoon last weekend choosing several poems in several languages.Two of them have featured before on TSP (makes me think that I should do a round up at the end of ( Read more... )

A very happy new year to all patient readers.I am hoping to put a personal news post up soon with seasonal and other news but felt poetry needed to return first.
But in lieu of the season's gap here are some poems to start 2016 off. Three for one this week only.
One is for amaraal whose visit over Christmas and New Year was as great fun ( Read more... )

That my Spring icon is still up must be a sign of how shockingly bad I have been so far at keeping up on LJ but I have made a resolution - a Summer one for a change to improve .I have been not really in a home of my own for nearly a year now and while things are moving it it is only slowly and I think disorientating perhaps - if that is any excuse ( Read more... )

I have decided this morning that I need to catch up with Spring and get myself going somewhat and included in those priorities are a Saturday poem update( upcoming guest column from esmerelda_t!) and reading the contributions which people kindly posted for anteros_lmc over the Easter weekend and many other things so as a sign the tree in the icon has changed to a blue ( Read more... )

Well I promised Blake this week so Blake it is -but then I remembered that today is card shop and florists benefit day aka Valentines Day when people even in the Times address each other in the daftest idioglossia they would never otherwise admit to and when the earnestly romantic but sadly unimaginative (including,apparently,the gifted Mr ( Read more... )

I know we have had Larkin before now on TSP but this somehow leapt out to me of possible poems to choose. It is'Water,' a relatively early poem ( From The Whitsun Weddings published in 1964 )but has the distinctive tones which were to become so well known later.

( Water )

This is the last of the sporadic garden updates and this year shows some of the shrubs I put in six years ago coming into their own which makes it sadder to leave them ( Read more... )

Several firsts today on TSP - the launch of number one in a series of new icons - this is due to amaraal who asked last week if I had a logo for TSP ( Read more... )