27-05-2018, 04:53 PM
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Re: A great Poem sticks for a Lifetime!
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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We had to write a poem in the style of, for a competition, I chose The Lady of Shallot.This Road Once Lead To Camelot
Gone, sights Tennyson saw plainly
G.M.T. crops, bearded barley
Combined harvesters heard clearly
Cutting, baling, binding early
This road once led to Camelot
The river full of rusting rubble
New houses cover where then stubble
Bringing peoples and all their trouble
Past, is the island of Shallot.
The Lady's legend is of yore
They didn't believe, wanted more
Progress and greed replaced folklore
The past is dead and gone before
Lost, once strong towered Camelot
High rise appartments fill the space
Where a dream castle had such grace
Now none can ever see the face
Cursed, forgot, Lady of Shallot.
I didn't win though.
I must post my painting of The Lady of Shallot. Thanks for prompting me.
27-05-2018, 06:01 PM
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Re: A great Poem sticks for a Lifetime!
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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Thanks & I Would love to see it Sweetie.
27-05-2018, 07:31 PM
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Re: A great Poem sticks for a Lifetime!
I do like a lot of poemsAnd I remember being moved when this was read in the Funeral bit of Four Weddings...
Funeral Blues
Wystan Hugh Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crépe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song,
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
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