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Sorry if there is a delay in replying or if I'm away for short periods. Sometimes life gets in the way. As John Lennon says, life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
Where Wordsworth had Ullswater,
Dove Cottage and Grasmere,
I look upon the industrial glory
of the Manchester Ship Canal
and the rolling River Irwell.
Where the Romantic poets would
meander through green fields
and hear the nightingale sing
I ramble down graffiti city streets
to the police siren song.
Where the greats would compose
their works with swishing quills
at fine desks in grand writing rooms,
I note ideas on my mobile phone
and scribble away in office lunch-hours.
The Romantics would gaze upon
great beauty, their hearts all a quiver
but to suggest my urban back-drop
is any less charming and poetic
then I would beg to differ.
There's poetry in the every-day
in winter dog walks and open fires
the summer beer garden with friends
in funerals, Christenings and whiskey,
and wherever you feel inspired.
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Tom Dylan (
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Good write T.
Thanks, Orchi. Really appreciated. 🙂
...... and, plus they mostly carked it quite early, Tom; whereas you've got the chance to experience your misery turned to joy for very much longer.
You better had - I want to feast on your poetic insights for sometime yet.
Haha, thanks, Dave. Appreciated. Yeah, hopefully I'll continue to blag my way through poetry for a long time yet.. 🙂
So very true Tom, there is poetry everywhere in our lives.
Andy
Yes, Andy, that's exactly it. And that's what I'm realising more and more. Thanks as always for your comments. Cheers, Tom.
You sleeping better now?
There will always be poetry and it can be found anywhere and everywhere. Inner city makes interesting reading, these days. I enjoyed your lines Tom and the reminder of the Wordsworth’s of this world who initiated me into poetry. Have a happy weekend.
Yes, Cassie. That's exactly it. I do love Wordsworth and the classics, but I also try and write what I know, as they say. The daffodils I see are along the dual carriageway on my way to work. 🙂 Happy Friday and have a lovely weekend.
And you too 🙂
this is now firmly affixed to the top of my long list of T.C. Dylan poems .. exceedingly well worded and otherwise composed .. bravo Tom
Thanks so much, mate. Means a lot.
Tremendous work, Tom.
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