Menage (Inspired By Fogglethorpe) ! Poem by Shahzia Batool
Menage (Inspired By Fogglethorpe) !
I guess there’s something more to say
So let me start with Thomas Gray
In his times a well-known bard
For Elegy written in country Churchyard
A phrase was there which made him rise,
“where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise”
For angels, Christ and God’s sake
The One who wrote was William Blake
The mother Nature gave birth to a child
Whose verse was, like his work, so mild
With worthy work he was Wordsworth
Who dwelt in Nature’s lap of mirth
The Ones whose work I go through daily
Are Marlowe, Keats and P.B.Shelley
Freud-like king was Robert Browning
His poems reflect his dramatizing
The old Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Donne
Are rich in wit, conceit and fun
But Eliot, Lawrence, W.H.Auden
Are some of those but known as modern.
Heaney, Larkin and Ted Hughes
Serve also in the court of Muse.
Yet, in the end do let me say
Still there's something more to say!
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MANY THANKS TO Mr.HUGH LEMMA, known by the nick of FOGGLETHORPE, WHOSE POEM (quoted below) IS THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR MY WRITE!
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Ménage
by fogglethorpe
Nature had its denizens
in Basho, Frost, and Tennyson,
while children’s rhyme was best produced
by Jack Prelutsky, Mother Goose,
and Silverstein, and Dr. Seuss.
Burroughs played the nonsense card,
the anthem thrived with Key and Locke;
philosophy was Kierkegaard,
while Edgar Allan Poe could shock
and Shakespeare was the finest bard.
A caustic wit was Dottie Parker.
Allen Ginsberg? Controversial.
Beowulf? A question mark.
Some poetry is in commercials!
Greeting cards are doggerel.
Ms. Angelou? Inaugural.
Religion has been done before,
and Wilfred Owen covered war.
Eroticism? Sappho’s hot!
Politico? I’d rather not!
So lyrical was Thomas Moore,
but love is an incessant bore,
and death is just a load of rot.
Disaster lies beneath the Tay-
I guess there’s nothing more to say.
Copyright © 2014 by Hugh Lemma- All rights reserved
Nice analysis of some well known poets. Then there is something more to say about many more poets. Beautiful poem. Thank you.
Few of the poets mentioned here were unknown to me, poem is informative and well rhymed :)
great writing and bit fun too, amuse to see how rhymes go parraral with poets and genres, plz do read my Soul of age and comments too
@ Valsa George: Your lines are the honor Valsa ji! many thanks!
With worthy work he was Wordsworth Who dwelt in Nature’s lap of mirth I love these lines the most. To it let me add two more lines; From his workshop came ornaments of thousands worth No wonder, he is hailed as England's Words smith
Wonderful poem, great people mentioned, this is what I say, learn from each, take out the essence, what you choose. Never take anything serious, because they were what they were and your are you. Eventually you make up your mind which side you choose.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/25/2024 9:21:20 AM # 1.0.0.1119
beautiful work. very nice poem. you worked with gems and diamonds. and the last line of the poem, i am remembering Ibn e Insha, says, 'itni baat thori hy! '