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Monthly Archives: May 2016

Re-finding Yeats

27 Friday May 2016

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Fly Free Denny Bradbury, The Hawk, W B Yeats

I haven’t read my books of W B Yeats poems for a while and find myself drawn in once more by his insight and intrigued by his observations. I wrote a similar poem about the tethering of  birds of prey for man’s enjoyment. Here Yeats speaks from the hawk’s point of view:

From The Hawk – W B Yeats

 ‘I will not be clapped in a hood,
Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,
Now I have learnt to be proud
Hovering over the wood
In the broken mist
Or tumbling cloud.’

‘What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
Last evening’? that I, who had sat
Dumbfounded before a knave,
Should give to my friend
A pretence of wit.’

This is my offering on a similar topic:

Fly Free (be not halt for me)

Halt by jesse, bell and piece of rope:
Three hunters tethered
Of freedom in this misty land
They have no hope.

People gawp around the pen –
They stare and gape – and when ’tis done,
Will walk forgetting in the sun
Proud hawk
and feisty falcon.

Eagle owl is now the star:
Wings outstretched, Nature’s majesty,
Flies four yards to gather in
Day-old meat
Held out on sorry hand.

Spectacle is all they are –
Dependent on man
Who loves, but wrongly
Misguided gaoler.

best wishes for a kinder world – Denny Bradbury

Singing In Hope

19 Thursday May 2016

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Denny Bradbury poetry, Spring Poem

Following my morning walk in the brisk spring light I felt an overwhelming sympathy with the tiny birds that flew in and out of the hedgerow:

Singing In Hope

Tiny finches carol away trying to attract

morning sun and unsuspecting insects

showing off to their mate;

punching above their weight in song

puffing out chests in sheer delight,

darkness recedes – here comes the light!

Best wishes for a day filled with light – Denny Bradbury

Keats and The Grasshopper …

06 Friday May 2016

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John Keats, Keats sonnets, Onthe Grasshopper and the Cricket

Recently asked what inspires my writing, I couldn’t think of a reasonable answer as it is everyone and everything, every occasion and none. I found this charming sonnet from Keats and realised he might quite have felt the same, but perhaps we shouldn’t analyse too much just enjoy the moment:

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket – John Keats

The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s – he takes the lead
In summer luxury,-he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening , when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket’s song in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

 

Best wishes – Denny Bradbury

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