Mrs Robinson Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Mrs Robinson

Rating: 4.7


Finely tuned
He topped his heights
With extra draughts of nectar.
He could see humour and sorrow in all.

Amusement in a mountain
Brought a tear
For friend not here
And never here again.

The thought she's in a better place
Only doubled mourning.
The better place is here.
Why can't she still be here?

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
After reading Coleridge's 'A Stranger Minstrel'.1800.(it is on gutenberg.org) By 1800 he wasn't just high on mountain.
Mary Robinson was a popular poet of great Romantic sensibility, a beauty, hard done by a lover, had a miscarriage at 23 and was disabled for the next 20 years till her death.
She wrote poems for him and he for her.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM

A fine display of free-verse and the storyline that very accurately addresses the human-element sense of natural selfishness in dealing with loss/death of an endeared.Well delivered... ~FjR~

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Danny Draper 10 July 2012

This captures well the loss, longing and empathy that such times and social mores must has engendered.

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Bri Edwards 18 November 2019

I was expecting some mention of Dustin Hoffman (Mrs. Robinson movie reference here) . ;) Maybe they are BOTH in a better place now? bri :) the Poet's Notes were appreciated.

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Howard Savage 05 February 2016

There is no better place than here.

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A creative and compelling cry that is loaded with lost of someone special, Well done my friend!

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Hiroshi Satow 01 May 2015

Good poem. And sad. I like it.

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Michael Walker 30 April 2015

It is good that Coleridge and Mary Robinson wrote poems for each other. Coleridge, naturally wished that Mary could stay. M. Walker.

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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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