Flying Crooked Comments

dreadful reading of a magnificent poem she even misread now for know and, for shame for it all- it is these non- readers who have turned off students from poetry for a lifetime. How could this be allowed!

This was the first poem I ever loved, probably because I understood it completely on first reading it. Occasionally, we have those moments when we think to ourselves, Somebody out there truly empathises with what I am feeling... Still my favourite poem to this day, and still one of my favourite poets: as for the others, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Blake, and Benjamin Zephania are all worth a look as all three are deeply perceptive of and receptive to the human condition.

Coda - written on broccoli being consumed by cabbage white caterpillars: The caterpillar, hairy, green, Whose appetite is all too keen, Has not this honest gift, alas, And heads straight for the Brassicas.