A POETRY READING
I have been asked to do a poetry reading
I asked on what date
She said on national poetry day
I bowed my head in gratitude
For this was something I never knew
To think in all my years of scribbling
When I wrote October is Golden
that this is what it meant!
And not the tumbling bronze leaves
nor the demise of a dear friend.
Where shall I start
chronologically perhaps
At the beginning
When in my head two part lines tumbled
On searching they were never found
"through green swards we walked..
..lovers in a dew scented forest"
Timid,afraid of plagiarism
They were never used
Not even now not owned by me
Nor cannot be
Even though they echo in my head
Perhaps some literary buff
an academic of renown
Will quote from a long forgotten
little known dusty historic ode
To bring me down and into shame.
[to be on October 2nd 2014]
©MRL 31-03-14
I presume you will be reading your own poetry. Have you got any of your own in a collection?
ReplyDeleteYes Tony !
DeleteAll that are contained on this blog are mine and the initials MRL are the first letters of each of my names.
A few years ago I recorded 100 poems on to a disc, it was hard work and I doubt if I shall do it again.
Good luck with it Heron!
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting Em and also for the comment.
DeleteI like this one.....really good
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DeleteI like this.... good luck
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DeleteHow fabulous those lines are! Unfortunately everything seems to have been written already and no matter how careful one is there is always a chance that one may inadvertently use a phrase that is similar to something that someone else wrote. I also research everything I write about just in case :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the reading, it will perhaps be difficult for you to chose poems for the reading from all your creations, but you do have
until October :)
Thank you for your comment Rose, accidental plagiarism with phrases is always a problem and perhaps more acceptable.
DeleteIn regards to the reading I shall start with an early one and go forward from there and mingle each with a comment on what moved me ... that's if I can remember !
Surely this is a site well worth seeing.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Jerry !
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