JOHN BETJEMAN ~ THE POETS POET ~ LISTEN TO CHRISTMAS !
WHAT distinguishes Poets from People ?
Firstly it is IMAGINATION ~ The
Ability to see beyond REALITY
And to perceive Hidden Depth & Meaning !
It is this ability that requires
An infinite store of WORDS to express
Insight into Life & Love & Leisure !
If ones Native Vocabulary is .......
Inadequate ~ then there are six thousand
Languages to choose from ~ or invent WORDS
Poetic Licence ! Your WORDS must then be
Arranged into lines of appropriate
METER to give the POEM ~ FLOW ! RHYME is .......
NOT ESSENTIAL ~ but aids RECITATION !
Thanks for visiting ~ comments welcome ~ Love A & B 🧡🧡🧡
This POEM is presented as a 7 7 blank verse Sonnet ~ OK
Each line has ten syllables ~ iambic pentameter !
JOHN BETJEMAN is a Classical Poet ~ whose Poems always
have perfect meter and most of them have a consistent Rhyme
Pattern. They are a delight to recite and his VOCABULARY
(words) is PERFECT. If one looks at his MANUSCRIPTS ~ there
are many (sometimes minor) alterations until he got it RIGHT.
If you want to be a better POET ~ get a book of John*s Poems
and read ~ mark ~ learn & inwardly digest ! Please make sure
you read them out loud ~ to fully savour each & every WORD !
His Poem CHRISTMAS ~ is my favourite ~ It is the one POEM
of the thousand*s Ive read & recited ~ I wish I had written !
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Author:
ANGELA & BRIAN (Pseudonym) (
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A fine write A&B. I googled on 'iambic-thingy'. Someone had put 'Oh no, not another iambic waffle! heehee.
Thanks UNCLE STEVE ! Please note ~ WITHOUT METER it is PROSE ~ WITH METER it is POETRY ~ OK ! I have added JB reading CHRISTMAS ~ please check. Please you liked it !
Blessings to YOU & Fearless FIDO
Yours as always ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡🧡🧡🧡 + 🧡
Only just under 7 months to go - wishing the year away - arrgghh!
Christmas is great but if I'd written any of his I'd be a happy man. Fine work A&B
THANKS UNCLE MIKE ~ We agree every one a GEM ~ A pity he became Poet Laureate so late in his life. I like the new system 10 years max ! I never rated DUFFEY ~ but I do rate SIMON ARMITAGE and I have a POEM on Him almost ready to publish on MPS. Pleased you liked our Presentation !
Blessings & Peace & Love
Yours ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡🧡🧡🧡
Ahh, Sir John
Fully deserves his statue in St Pancras even the bar in his honor which I have frequented.
His poem Loneliness helped me I love the englishness of his work a true laureate.
Wonderful Tribute he inspired and inspires many of us
Thank you A&B
Thanks ANDREW ~ For ANGELA & I ~ One of the greatest ~ a quitisenial ENGLISHMAN an Edwardian Eccentric and (Like Prince Charles) a lover of all things pre 1950 ! His Poems like Christmas & Joan Hunter Dunn are social comments on the 20's 30's & 40's and *Come Friendly Bombs & fall on SLOUGH* is a masterpiece ! In my POEM I was trying to emphasise FORM (does it look like a POEM ?) and METER (does it sound like a POEM ?) if it does both it is a POEM !
Blessings & Peace
Yours ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡🧡🧡🧡
Cor! and there i was thinkin, I could never be a poet. Now you've shown me how I might have a go.
THANKS *DA* ! IN THIS *BLANK VERSE* SONNET ~ We are talking specifically about WRITTEN POETRY. If it is just continuous writing (like a newspaper article or this REPLY) it is classified as PROSE not POETRY. A POEM must have STRUCTURE ~ Lines and Verses and it must have RHYTHM (meter) which should be consistent throughout the POEM ~ OK. A Poem does not have to RHYME but rhyming helps and it is traditional. Classical Poems like Villanelles & Pantoums etc do have strict Rhyme Patterns and a pattern of repeated lines ! The above example is a 7 7 Blank verse Sonnet ~ BECAUSE ~ It has 14 Lines ~ no Rhyme ~ but each Line has 10 Syllables to give it FLOW ~ OK Thanks for your comment !
Yours ANGELA & BRIAN ~🧡🧡🧡🧡
This POEM is an A & B Collaboration ~ OK !
Well that might be the way to teach kids how poetry used to be written but i move with the times.
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Well now I know, I'm not a poet,
And old dogs like me, can't learn new tricks.
STILL LOVE BEING A KID, THERE IS A CERTAIN INNOCENCE AFTER ALL, BEFORE SOCEITY DESTROYS IT,
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