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An Afternoon of Poetry with Poet Kevin Morris at Croydon’s Ashburton Library on Saturday 8 November

I am delighted to announce that I will be reading my poetry at Ashburton Library in Croydon on Saturday 8 November at 2 pm. For anyone who is in the vicinity and would like to attend please follow this link for further information and to book https://croydon.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=247174

 

I look forward to seeing you on Saturday 8 November.

Too Much Latin

There once was a great lover of Latin

Who had a job as a professional assassin.

Whilst reading great Virgil

He became very ill.

That’s what comes of reading too much Latin!

 

 

A Poet’s Life

I am good

Sometimes.

And lose myself in rhymes.

I am blood.

Love.

And in the end

I am words half heard

By readers and friends.

And gathering dust

On books

The Anarchic Wind

I am a plaything

In the arms

Of the whispering wind.

She has charms.

Her summer breeze teases

Bringing delight.

But those who fight

The wind

When she is wild

Will find themselves a helpless child

Locked tight in arms

That have lost all their charms

And will pray

For the ungovernable wind

To stay her anarchic play

And the summer breeze

To gently tease once more.

But put no store

In that wild fickle thing,

The eternal wind.

Kevin Morris Reading from his poetry collection, “More Poetic Meanderings”

Today, I am sharing a link to me reading from my collection, “More Poetic Meanderings”, https://soundcloud.com/kevin-stephen-morris/poet-kevin-morris-reading-from-his-collection-more-poetic-meanderings-part-1.

 

“More Poetic Meanderings” is also available in Kindle and paperback from Amazon and can be found here https://www.amazon.com/More-Poetic-Meanderings-K-Morris-ebook/dp/B0BZT9G139

A Poem by Walter Savage Landor

I am a fan of the short poem. Below is a brief untitled poem by Walter Savage Landor, 1775-1864 Walter Savage Landor – Wikipedia.

 

 

 

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.

Nature I loved and, and next to nature, art:

I warmed both hands before the fire of life;

It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

An Extract from “Light and Shade”

I walk amidst these

Windblown

Leaves.

How time has flown.

I shall in beauty drown

And think on these

Fallen leaves,

Which now strew the ground.

 

(Taken from “Light and Shade” Light and Shade; serious (and not so serious) poems eBook : Morris, K: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store).

Lost Time

The wind is eternal.

It blows and my thought goes

Scuttering like dead leaves.

 

 

I heard the clock’s tick tock.

Should I grieve

For lost time?

 

There is no time

Only my temporary body clock

Which will, one day, stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will I Always be?

Will I always be

The man who recites poetry

To young women,

My mind half on poetry,

And half on sinning.

They may admire my poetry,

But I am told

I grow old

And girls who have time

For my rhyme

Will never love me.

Yet they love my poetry

And is not poetry

Part of me?

Often Poetry is Enough

Often poetry is enough.

But sometimes I find my mind

Occupied by other stuff.

I see young women in heels

Slippery as eels.

 

 

Like eels they slip away.

Though some stay.

A moment in time

Caught in rhyme,

When they have gone away.