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The Wondering Minstrels: The Dentist -- A P Herbert
Guest poem submitted by William Grey : ( Poem #1830 ) The Dentist Yes, yes, the dentist talks a lot For h...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Sestina -- Elizabeth Bishop
Guest poem sent in by Mark Penney ( Poem #1799 ) Sestina September rain falls on the house. In the faili...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina -- Miller Williams
( Poem #904 ) The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina Somewhere in everyone's head something points toward home, a ...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2006/12/day-flies-off-without-me-john-stammers.html?showComment=1299171694178
The Wondering Minstrels: The Day Flies Off Without Me -- John Stammers
Guest poem sent in by Hemant Mohapatra ( Poem #1960 ) The Day Flies Off Without Me The planes bound for a...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Bagpipe Music -- Louis MacNeice
The second of our guest poems, sent in by Anustup Datta ( Poem #18 ) Bagpipe Music It's no go the merry...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Haiku -- Matsuo Basho
Since it's that time of year... ( Poem #56 ) Haiku scent of plum blossoms on the misty mountain path a big ...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Bells of Heaven -- Ralph Hodgson
Guest poem sent in by Bob Williams ( Poem #1700 ) The Bells of Heaven 'Twould ring the bells of heaven, ...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/03/absolutely-ordinary-rainbow-les-murray.html?showComment=1445223705321
The Wondering Minstrels: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow -- Les Murray
Guest poem submitted by Ron Heard : ( Poem #387 ) An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow The word goes round Repin...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/03/boston-john-collins-bossidy.html?showComment=1455884656809
The Wondering Minstrels: Boston -- John Collins Bossidy
( Poem #365 ) Boston And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Insect God -- Edward Gorey
Guest poem submitted by Natalie Gray , in response to Hilaire Belloc's "Jim" (Minstrels poem #809 ): Your poem reminded me of one of...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/12/sun-corner-tarjei-vesaas.html
The Wondering Minstrels: Sun-corner -- Tarjei Vesaas
Guest poem submitted by Wendy Waring : ( Poem #1402 ) Sun-corner At home there's a sun-corner where sprin...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/08/faithless-sally-brown-thomas-hood.html?showComment=1562066567142
The Wondering Minstrels: Faithless Sally Brown -- Thomas Hood
( Poem #1331 ) Faithless Sally Brown An old ballad. Young Ben he was a nice young man, A carpenter by ...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2006/12/dead-man-chest-robert-louis-stevenson.html?showComment=1430166739396
The Wondering Minstrels: Dead Man's Chest -- Robert Louis Stevenson
( Poem #1943 ) Dead Man's Chest Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Dr...
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The Wondering Minstrels: As the poets have mournfully sung -- W H Auden
Guest poem submitted by Anustup Datta : ( Poem #1403 ) As the poets have mournfully sung As the poets have...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/11/
The Wondering Minstrels: November 2003
A poem a day, complete with analysis, criticism, biographical info, literary anecdotes, trivia, and our own skewed sense of humour :-)
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The Wondering Minstrels: You -- Carol Ann Duffy
Guest poem submitted by Jennifer Cushion : ( Poem #1779 ) You Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too la...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/03/man-whose-pharynx-was-bad-wallace.html?showComment=1449220763024
The Wondering Minstrels: The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad -- Wallace Stevens
( Poem #373 ) The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad The time of year has grown indifferent. Mildew of summer and t...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2006/08/borderland-henry-lawson.html?showComment=1443442771024
The Wondering Minstrels: Borderland -- Henry Lawson
Winding up the "summer heat" theme... ( Poem #1897 ) Borderland I am back from up the country -- very sorr...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Ancient one, I'm drunk with the voice -- Eugenio Montale
Guest poem submitted by Aseem Kaul : ( Poem #1815 ) Ancient one, I'm drunk with the voice Ancient one, I'm...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Listeners -- Walter de la Mare
( Poem #2 ) The Listeners 'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And hi...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/1999/06/mrtambourine-man-bob-dylan.html?showComment=1295771335194
The Wondering Minstrels: Mr.Tambourine Man -- Bob Dylan
( Poem #112 ) Mr.Tambourine Man Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and ther...
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The Wondering Minstrels: In Flanders Fields -- John McCrae
The first of our guest poems, sent in by Sameer Siruguri ( Poem #11 ) In Flanders Fields In Flanders fi...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Ancient one, I'm drunk with the voice -- Eugenio Montale
Guest poem submitted by Aseem Kaul : ( Poem #1815 ) Ancient one, I'm drunk with the voice Ancient one, I'm...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2005/12/note-wislawa-szymborska.html
The Wondering Minstrels: A Note -- Wislawa Szymborska
Guest poem sent in by Neville Clemens ( Poem #1797 ) A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leave...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2006/05/on-porch-michael-ondaatje.html?showComment=1436124988166
The Wondering Minstrels: On the Porch -- Michael Ondaatje
Guest poem submitted by Nandini Chandra : ( Poem #1864 ) On the Porch On the porch thin ceramic chimes ...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Subway Piranhas -- Edwin Morgan
Guest poem sent in by Vikram Doctor ( Poem #304 ) The Subway Piranhas Did anyone tell you that in each...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/03/o-what-is-that-sound-w-h-auden.html
The Wondering Minstrels: O What Is That Sound -- W H Auden
( Poem #371 ) O What Is That Sound O what is that sound which so thrills the ear Down in the valley dr...
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The Wondering Minstrels: True Love -- Wislawa Szymborska
Guest poem submitted by Vikram Doctor : ( Poem #694 ) True Love True love. Is it normal is it serious, is...
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The Wondering Minstrels: A Daydream -- Emily Bronte
Guest poem sent in by Neha Khanna ( Poem #1942 ) A Daydream On a sunny brae alone I lay One summer after...
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The Wondering Minstrels: I'm Nobody! Who are you? -- Emily Dickinson
Guest poem sent in by Ashwin ( Poem #711 ) I'm Nobody! Who are you? I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you--No...
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The Wondering Minstrels: My Sweetest Lesbia -- Thomas Campion
( Poem #1466 ) My Sweetest Lesbia (in imitation of Catallus) My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, A...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2004/02/clod-and-pebble-william-blake.html?showComment=1450418073351
The Wondering Minstrels: The Clod and the Pebble -- William Blake
Guest poem sent in by Gregory Marton ( Poem #1452 ) The Clod and the Pebble Love seeketh not Itself to pl...
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The Wondering Minstrels: A Toccata of Galuppi's -- Robert Browning
After a long and weary journey, we come at last to Venice, western terminus of the fabled Silk Road. ( Poem #526 ) A...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Resume -- Dorothy Parker
( Poem #150 ) Resume Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't l...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Let Evening Come -- Jane Kenyon
Guest poem submitted by Kathy : ( Poem #1066 ) Let Evening Come Let the light of late afternoon shine thr...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Prologue -- Dylan Thomas
( Poem #14 ) Prologue This day winding down now At God speeded summer's end In the torrent salmon sun, In my...
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The Wondering Minstrels: John Anderson My Jo -- Robert Burns
continuing the Scottish theme... ( Poem #19 ) John Anderson My Jo John Anderson my jo, John, When we we...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Vagabond -- Robert Louis Stevenson
( Poem #780 ) The Vagabond Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven abo...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Requiem: The Soldier -- Humbert Wolfe
Guest poem submitted by Valerie Clarke : ( Poem #1504 ) Requiem: The Soldier Down some cold field in a wor...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Old Folks laugh -- Maya Angelou
Guest poem sent in by Ebor Mithwarg ( Poem #645 ) Old Folks laugh They have spent their content of simpe...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Cargoes -- John Masefield
( Poem #74 ) Cargoes Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,...
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The Wondering Minstrels: A Note -- Wislawa Szymborska
Guest poem sent in by Neville Clemens ( Poem #1797 ) A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leave...
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The Wondering Minstrels: On Giving -- Kahlil Gibran
Guest poem sent in by Neville Clemens ( Poem #1750 ) On Giving There are those who give little of the muc...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Prologue -- Dylan Thomas
( Poem #14 ) Prologue This day winding down now At God speeded summer's end In the torrent salmon sun, In my...
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The Wondering Minstrels: the lost baby poem -- Lucille Clifton
Guest poem sent in by Rachel W.W. Granfield ( Poem #1246 ) the lost baby poem the time i dropped your alm...
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The Wondering Minstrels: You -- Carol Ann Duffy
Guest poem submitted by Jennifer Cushion : ( Poem #1779 ) You Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too la...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Christian -- Ambrose Bierce
CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neig...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Road Goes Ever On -- J R R Tolkien
( Poem #4 ) The Road Goes Ever On The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now fa...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2001/06/grown-up-edna-st-vincent-millay.html?showComment=1417796629830
The Wondering Minstrels: Grown-up -- Edna St Vincent Millay
( Poem #817 ) Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, Th...
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The Wondering Minstrels: A mosquito was heard to complain -- Dr D D Perrin
Bending the theme rules again... ( Poem #801 ) A mosquito was heard to complain A mosquito was heard to co...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Subway Piranhas -- Edwin Morgan
Guest poem sent in by Vikram Doctor ( Poem #304 ) The Subway Piranhas Did anyone tell you that in each...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2006/03/planting-sequoia-dana-gioia.html
The Wondering Minstrels: Planting a Sequoia -- Dana Gioia
Guest poem submitted by Filip Comley : ( Poem #1826 ) Planting a Sequoia All afternoon my brothers and I h...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2004/05/ode-to-joy-friedrich-schiller.html?showComment=1318023696262
The Wondering Minstrels: Ode to Joy -- Friedrich Schiller
Guest poem submitted by Vijay : ( Poem #1509 ) Ode to Joy Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning Daughter ...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth -- Arthur Hugh Clough
Guest poem submitted by Patrick Brinton : ( Poem #1659 ) Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth Say not the...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/12/song-of-weather-michael-flanders.html?showComment=1629182377497
The Wondering Minstrels: A Song of the Weather -- Michael Flanders
The aforementioned Irresistible Followup... ( Poem #649 ) A Song of the Weather January brings the snow M...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Threnody -- Dorothy Parker
Guest poem submitted by Lakshmi Jagad : ( Poem #1768 ) Threnody Lilacs blossom just as sweet Now my heart...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Let It Go -- William Empson
( Poem #233 ) Let It Go It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange. The more things happen to y...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Raven -- Edgar Allan Poe
This week's theme (if you can call it a theme) is oft-parodied poems, starting off with what is probably the most famous of them all....
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The Wondering Minstrels: Resume -- Dorothy Parker
( Poem #150 ) Resume Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't l...
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The Wondering Minstrels: High Flight -- Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee
Guest poem sent in by Rajeev ( Poem #276 ) High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Tommy -- Rudyard Kipling
( Poem #43 ) Tommy I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve n...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Road Goes Ever On -- J R R Tolkien
( Poem #4 ) The Road Goes Ever On The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now fa...
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The Wondering Minstrels: You -- Carol Ann Duffy
Guest poem submitted by Jennifer Cushion : ( Poem #1779 ) You Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too la...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2001/02/i-nobody-who-are-you-emily-dickinson.html?showComment=1560037005267
The Wondering Minstrels: I'm Nobody! Who are you? -- Emily Dickinson
Guest poem sent in by Ashwin ( Poem #711 ) I'm Nobody! Who are you? I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you--No...
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https://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-hurry-of-this-time-henry-austin.html
The Wondering Minstrels: On The Hurry Of This Time -- Henry Austin Dobson
( Poem #1900 ) On The Hurry Of This Time With slower pen men used to write, Of old, when "letters" were "p...
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The Wondering Minstrels: A mosquito was heard to complain -- Dr D D Perrin
Bending the theme rules again... ( Poem #801 ) A mosquito was heard to complain A mosquito was heard to co...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Road Not Taken -- Robert Frost
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The Wondering Minstrels: Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate Conspire -- Omar Khayyam
Guest poem sent in by Nitesh Dixit ( Poem #1354 ) Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate Conspire Ah, Love!...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Blind Men and the Elephant -- John Godfrey Saxe
Guest poem sent in by Raj Bandyopadhyay ( Poem #1179 ) The Blind Men and the Elephant It was six men of I...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Yasmin -- James Elroy Flecker
( Poem #1218 ) Yasmin (A Ghazel) How splendid in the morning grows the lily: with what grace he throws Hi...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Prologue -- Dylan Thomas
( Poem #14 ) Prologue This day winding down now At God speeded summer's end In the torrent salmon sun, In my...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Bagpipe Music -- Louis MacNeice
The second of our guest poems, sent in by Anustup Datta ( Poem #18 ) Bagpipe Music It's no go the merry...
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The Wondering Minstrels: What Love is Like -- Piet Hein
( Poem #1092 ) What Love is Like Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable. -- Piet Hein...
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The Wondering Minstrels: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You -- Pablo Neruda
Guest poem sent in by Shatarupa Ghoshal ( Poem #1798 ) I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You I do n...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Split the Lark -- Emily Dickinson
Not had a Dickinson in a while... ( Poem #580 ) Split the Lark Split the Lark--and you'll find the Music--...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Let It Go -- William Empson
( Poem #233 ) Let It Go It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange. The more things happen to y...
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The Wondering Minstrels: l(a -- e e cummings
Guest poem sent in by Pranesh Prakash , in yet another take on the flight theme: ( Poem #1956 ) l(a l(a le af fa ll s) ...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Litany -- Billy Collins
( Poem #1095 ) Litany You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wi...
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The Wondering Minstrels: L'Allegro -- John Milton
The first part of ( Poem #279 ) L'Allegro Hence, loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus, and blackest midnight ...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Futility -- Wilfred Owen
Guest poem sent in by Vijay Victor ( Poem #288 ) Futility Move him into the sun-- Gently its touch awoke...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Second Honeymoon -- Tony Scanlon
Guest poem sent in by William Grey ( Poem #1619 ) Second Honeymoon The blue that startled his heart has f...
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The Wondering Minstrels: A Worker Reads History -- Bertolt Brecht
Guest poem sent in by Jack Bieler ( Poem #1406 ) A Worker Reads History Who built the seven gates of Theb...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Saddest Poem -- Pablo Neruda
Guest poem sent in by Suchitra ( Poem #605 ) Saddest Poem I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. ...
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The Wondering Minstrels: From Catullus V -- Sir Walter Raleigh
( Poem #1464 ) From Catullus V The sun may set and rise, But we, contrariwise, Sleep, after our short lig...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Sestina -- Elizabeth Bishop
Guest poem sent in by Mark Penney ( Poem #1799 ) Sestina September rain falls on the house. In the faili...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Song of Wandering Aengus -- William Butler Yeats
( Poem #1 ) The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cu...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Cargoes -- John Masefield
( Poem #74 ) Cargoes Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,...
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The Wondering Minstrels: I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell -- Tom Brown
Following up yesterday's "hate rhyme" with a rhyme of, well, mild dislike, I suppose: ( Poem #877 ) I Do Not Love Th...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Untitled -- Samuel Beckett
Guest poem sent in by Barbara Kay Bosserman ( Poem #1702 ) Untitled My way is in the sand flowing betwee...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Poem to be read at 3 a.m. -- Donald Justice
This poem was submitted independently by two readers in response to yesterday's offering (statius' 'to sleep'): Howard Weinberg and W...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Fall of Rome -- W H Auden
Guest poem submitted by Sunil Iyengar : ( Poem #494 ) The Fall of Rome The piers are pummelled by the wave...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna -- Charles Wolfe
( Poem #115 ) The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Two Worlds -- Edgar Fawcett
( Poem #240 ) Two Worlds A fiery young world, in far voids of sky, Called to an old world growing dar...
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The Wondering Minstrels: English Monarchs -- Anonymous
Guest poem requested by Christie le Goy, and almost simultaneously submitted by Christopher Martin : ( Poem #1361 ) ...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Bagpipe Music -- Louis MacNeice
The second of our guest poems, sent in by Anustup Datta ( Poem #18 ) Bagpipe Music It's no go the merry...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Hoochie Coochie Man -- Willie Dixon
From a modern-day minstrel... ( Poem #173 ) Hoochie Coochie Man Gypsy woman told my mother Before I was bor...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Flowers -- Rudyard Kipling
Guest poem sent in by Mallika Chellappa ( Poem #1332 ) The Flowers To our private taste, there is ...
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The Wondering Minstrels: As the poets have mournfully sung -- W H Auden
Guest poem submitted by Anustup Datta : ( Poem #1403 ) As the poets have mournfully sung As the poets have...
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The Wondering Minstrels: The Highwayman -- Alfred Noyes
( Poem #13 ) The Highwayman The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghos...
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The Wondering Minstrels: Insensibility -- Wilfred Owen
( Poem #232 ) Insensibility I Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold. Wh...
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