There was a young aristocrat called Tim
Who was extremely nice but dim.
His father, Lord More,
Said “let your gun roar”,
So he shot their gamekeeper Jim!”
There Was A Young Aristocrat Called Tim
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A Summary and Analysis of the ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ Fairy Tale
A curious introduction to a classic fairy story
How old do you think the story of Rumpelstiltskin is? It was famously included in the 1812 volume Children’s and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm (a book that’s better known as Grimms’ Fairy Tales), but many of the tales written down by the German siblings were of a considerable vintage by then. The surprising thing is that the story of Rumpelstiltskin – albeit under a different name – is thought to be some 4,000 years old. To put that in perspective, that’s over a thousand years before Homer, and roughly contemporaneous with the earliest surviving versions of the tales that comprise the Epic of Gilgamesh, widely regarded as the oldest epic. Rumpelstiltskin, it turns out, is one of the earliest known narratives in Western literature.
The plot of the fairy tale can be summarised in a couple…
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Time by K Morris
Thank you to Roberta Pimentel for publishing my poem, “Time” as a guest post on her site, http://robertapimentel.com/2017/01/29/guest-post-time-by-kevin-morris/.
Kevin
Lost
Many thanks to Pax Et Dolor Magazine for publishing my poem “Lost”. Kevin
By:- Kevin Morris
My thoughts lost on the damp air
Going who knows where.
The sodden grass
I pass
Where children play
but not today.
No ball
or bird call.
Only the rain’s incessant fall.
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A podcast of poet Kevin Morris’s Interview on Vancouver Co-Op Radio is now available
On the evening of Thursday 26 January, I had the honour of being interviewed by Ariadne Sawyer and Neil of Vancouver Co-Op Radio.
During the interview I read a number of my poems and answered questions on what inspired me to compose them.
For a podcast of my interview on Vancouver Co-op Radio please visit http://worldpoetry.ca/?p=11413.
I would like to extend my thanks to Ariadne, Neil and everyone at Vancouver Co-Op Radio for making the interview happen.
(Note: I was originally scheduled to be interviewed on Thursday 12 January. However due to an issue with my telephone line the interview did not take place. It was not until the point at which I got through to Vancouver Co-Op Radio, on the evening of Thursday 26 January, that I knew for certain that the issue with my line had been rectified by TalkTalk and I would, definitely be on air.
Not wishing to disappoint my readers by advertising the event only to find that it could not take place, I thought it best to wait until the interview had occurred and post a podcast of my appearance subsequently).
Kevin
K Morris reading his poem ‘Night Duty’.
K Morris reading his poem ‘Night Duty’.
K Morris reading his poem ‘Unrequited’.
Kevin Morris reading his poem ‘Unrequited’.
K Morris reading his poem ‘Feet of Clay’.
The inspiration for this poem was Hamlet’s remark: ‘We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us’ (Act 3, Scene 1).
K Morris reading his poem ‘May’.
May is an ancient pagan festival which witnesses men and women dancing around the maypole.
K Morris reading his poem ‘Death is Dead’.
What if we finally conquer death, and he is no more?
