Thanks to James and Michelle, Josie and Sophie for a fantastic poetry book for my birthday. Poetry at school was always formulaic and frankly boring, whilst the unflappable Mr Wex tried to enthuse us, it just wasn't going to happen... Anyway the book, if you can get your hands on a copy, is Selected Poems of Don Maclennan.
The imagery is fantastic, it's amazing how so few words can say so much. I hadn't before truly appreciated the catharsis of [or in?] poetry, this is a great new experience, re-awakening, reinvigorating an eye opener.
Get it and read it...
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thought provoking...
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Letter in a bottle
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When death takes me
I'll be in no mood to recount
the way I saw things
or work out my account
All I've ever wanted to make -
a few clean statements
on love and death,
things you cannot fake
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