Comments on: My love affair with poetry #1

By: WOOF contest winners » Rant of Ferox

WOOF contest winners » Rant of Ferox — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:24:16 +0000

[...] @ Sharp Words – My love affair with poetry – The first part of a brief series describing my life with [...]

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:33:01 +0000

I loved that one too, and I regularly used to recite it at the dinner table. (Probably drove my parents nuts.)

By: Writing Nag

Writing Nag — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:55:35 +0000

I eat my peas with honey; I've done so all my life. It makes the peas taste funny But it keeps them on my knife. This was the first poem I memorized it was in an illustrated poetry book for kids. I fell out of love with poetry in high school, my school wanted every poem analyzed. It's much more than that. Now I'm happily back in love. Writing Nag´s last post: Photo Mosaic for Margaret Lyons Kennelly

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:39:43 +0000

That’s so sweet Fiendish – and I think it definitely counts as your first composed poem!

By: Fiendish

Fiendish — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:07:37 +0000

My first composed poem – though does it count if you just recite it at every opportunity, as opposed to writing it down? – was around age three, I believe. (Giving me nearly fifteen years’ experience at this stage).

It goes a-little something like this:

Milky the Cow, she milks so fast
Where does she go when she’s fi-nished?*
Over the hill and far away
Far, far away.

*I include the hyphen to indicate the lengthened first syllable. It was all repeated in a very sing-song voice. (And caught on camera – I was sporting rather fetching black and white striped dungarees.)

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By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:20:42 +0000

That particular Entrecard ad (for I Do Things) was just a coincidence, Susan – but a pleasantly happy one!

I also like Ogden Nash, but Shel Silverstein didn’t really seem to feature in UK schools’ English curricula, at least not in mine. I never even heard of him till a few years ago (and actually thought he was a she until very recently).

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:23:46 +0000

Hey, I like the way the Entrecard shows a sleeping cat to illustrate your first quoted poem, well done! Ogden Nash and Shel Silverstein were my favourites as a child, and I can still recite quite a few of those. My school was heavy on the poetry too; it may be why I stuck with literature for a degree. Looking forward to part 2! Susan´s last post: Grants and Fellowships for Writers (Again)