
#poetrymatters @TheSpineView
Prompt: Fresh
“The one effort she still had to expend was to make sure she was always where Tennyson was not.“
#poetrymatters @lazydays
Prompt: Home
Found this lovely little poem and liked the intro so here are both.
“He‘d been sent out to pick firewood from the forest, sticks and timbers wrenched loose in the storm. Light met him as he stepped outside, the living day met him with its details, the scuffling blackbird that had its nest in their apple tree.”
“He‘d been sent out to pick firewood from the forest, sticks and timbers wrenched loose in the storm. Light met him as he stepped outside, the living day met him with its details, the scuffling blackbird that had its nest in their apple tree.”
P.72 of Feral and he mentions John Clare in referencing the decline of 'the countryside' in #Northamptonshire. Now, I wasn't blown away by 'The Poet's Wife' but it did teach me about John Clare at least. #johnclare