Totally TICKed Off by a Bunch of SUCKERS !

Is my local council an ass to annually deliver a “herd” of (up to four) (Count them ! (Zzzzz ! Zzzz ! Zzzz !)) (Yes, I know – that sounds more like <Oink !>-ing than snoring….try (p)IGnoring that) <Rare Breeds> sheep to the woodland at the heart of our local DOG Park ?
These woolly(-minded ?) [...]

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Christina Rossetti’s “Song”

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A reading of Christina Georgina Rossetti’s
funereal poem : “Song”

WHEN I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the [...]

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William Blake’s “The Tyger”

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A reading of William Blake’s famous poem.

THE TYGER
(from “Songs of Experience”)
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & [...]

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I Sometimes Think (Comic Verse, Unknown Authorship).

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A reading of a comic poem. Author unknown.
I SOMETIMES THINK

I sometimes think I’d rather crow
And be a rooster than to roost
And be a crow. But I dunno.
A rooster he can roost also,
Which don’t seem fair when crows can’t crow.
Which may help some. Still I dunno.
Crows should be glad of one thing, [...]

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Hilaire Belloc’s : “Matilda – Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death”

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A reading of Hilaire Belloc’s 1907 Comic Poem/Cautionary Tale :
Matilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death

Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,
It made one Gasp and Stretch one’s Eyes;
Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,
Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth,
Attempted to Believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her,
And would have [...]

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(Most of) “The Marrog” by R.C. Scriven

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This is a reading of the poem “The Marrog” by R.C. Scriven
EXACTLY as it appears in the Kaye Webb-edited
“I Like This Poem”.
I have since found a variant version,
on the intyweb, that includes some excised rhymes.
I hope they were not stripped just to make the text fit.
That’s like Cinderella’s sisters hacking off [...]

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Peace-pipe” (Excerpt)

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A reading from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s classic poem “The Peace-pipe”.
Annoyingly, this text is somewhat curtailed having appeared,
slimmed and trimmed in the section
“Poems for 10 Year Olds”
in the Kaye Webb-edited anthology
“I Like This Poem”.
It SHOULD be read IN FULL and with reverence.
I have don(n)e (for) it as a “bored kid who would [...]

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T.S. Eliot’s “Macavity : The Mystery Cat”

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A reading of T.S. Eliot’s poem “Macavity : The Mystery Cat”.
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
by T.S. Eliot
Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw -
For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime – [...]

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Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

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Reading of a poem that may have connections with both “Whose Pigs are These ?” and “No Sleep ’til Brooklyn”.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with [...]

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G.K. Chesterton’s “The Donkey”

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A VERY VANILLA reading of G.K. Chesterton’s poem : “The Donkey”.
THE DONKEY
G.K. Chesterton
When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born;
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.
The tattered outlaw of the [...]

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