Is those things arms, or is they legs? (The Octopus By Ogden Nash) An owl’s cry, a most melancholy cry (The Owl By Thomas Hardy) A greyhound should be headed like a Snake, (The Properties of a Good Greyhound By Dame Juliana Berners) When I was once in Baltimore (Sheep By W.H. Davies) A snake […]
I am days when I don’t know (Who am I? by Geraldine O’Toole) But still the stars shine on high And hang like diamond’s fire in the sky (Ride the night by Marion Bauer) I feel it’s good to find your starTo be precisely the age you are (Teenager by Iain Duggan) It’s the spark […]
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree (W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree") And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day (Patrick Kavanagh "On Raglan Road") Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road (WALT WHITMAN “Song of the Open Road” ) Patchwork […]
Another example of a Patchwork Poem : Joyful are the thoughts of home (The wood-cutter’s night song – John Clare)Where the hay lies thick and greenest (A Boy’s song – James Hogg)A bee-hive’s hum shall soothe my ear (A wish – Samuel Rogers)What need have you to care (To a child dancing in the wind […]
Poetry Ireland Day will be celebrated on the 29th April 2021, why not celebrate by creating a poem of your own? Maybe try a Patchwork Poem? A Patchwork poem, also known as a Cento poem, is one created out of other poems, or writings. Just as a patchwork quilt is assembled out of a collection […]
You're invited to join Annemarie Ní Churreáin for a zoom cuppa & chat this evening (14 April 2021) at 7pm. We'll be meeting for an hour to read and discuss Pangur Bán, an Old Irish poem (9th century) by an Irish monk about his cat! We'll read Heaney's English translation here (and his translator's notes) And I'm delighted that book-club […]