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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Having a Coke with You’ by Frank O’Hara
As it is Valentine’s weekend we thought it would be prudent to bring you this romantically beautiful poem. In his book, The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, David Lehman correctly comments about O’Hara’s poetry: “The surface of O’Hara’s poems is so dazzling, with taste so fine and sensibility so rare and appealing, that it comes as a surprise to investigate and realize that there are depths of meaning in his offhanded poems that seem as disarmingly immediate and perishable as telephone calls. The prejudice against humor and lightheartedness in poetry has caused some readers to overlook not only the lyric pathos informing O’Hara’s work…
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Mobile Photography/Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘A Childhood’ by Robin Robertson
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled ‘A Childhood’ by Robin Robertson. I hope you enjoy this poem, I have matched centerforbalancecliff with this image. Source: The New Yorker To view the others in our Mobile Photography/Art Saturday Poetry section, please go here. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer
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Mobile Photography/Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Ample Make This Bed’ by Emily Dickinson
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled ‘Ample Make This Bed’ by Emily Dickinson. This poem, it is said has two meanings, one that the poet is speaking about a sensual moment that she is intending to spend with her companion, or fantasising about it and the other notion, is that she is preparing her deathbed. In as much as she is trying to ensure that when the time comes, everything is perfect. Source: Poem Hunter For me, I align myself with the former, not least because several weeks ago, Kevin and I ordered a new bed and we are very excited about it being…
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Mobile Photography/Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Silt Whisper’ by Ailbhe Darcy
I am introducing a new section, simply titled, Saturday Poetry. Each Saturday I will publish a poem and I will also try to link a mobile photography image, that has been uploaded to our Instagram hashtag #theappwhisperer during the week. This week’s poem, Silt Whisper is by Ailbhe Darcy, it is from her book Imaginary Menagerie. “One-Eyed Jack is an American board game, played with cards and poker chips It’s the two-eyed Jacks (clubs or diamonds) that are the official wild cards. Silt Whisper begins with a signal that breaking and making rules could be significant in the poem. Hearts and spades are the official one-eyed jacks, and we all…
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Mobile Photography/Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘The Moon and The Yew Tree’ by Sylvia Plath
I am introducing a new section, simply titled, Saturday Poetry. Each Saturday I will publish a poem and I will also try to link a mobile photography image, that has been uploaded to our Instagram hashtag #theappwhisperer during the week. As it is Halloween weekend my thoughts turned to the Yew Tree (Taxus baccata), also known as ‘the tree of the dead’. It is commonly found in churchyards throughout the United Kingdom, France and Spain. Some, it has been said have stood for between 1,300 and 3,000 years. At least 250 yews today are as old or older than the churchyards in which they stand. It is “beneath the yew-tree’s…
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Saturday Poetry
I love poetry, I love words, pictures, music, people and the combination of these is the utmost thrill to me. I am introducing a new section, simply titled, Saturday Poetry. Each Saturday I will publish a poem from a new and wonderful book, with a link if you wish to purchase the entire thing. Just a little something extra to enjoy the weekend. Last weekend I published a poem by Andrew McMillian – Jacob with the Angel, from his book Physical. Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body – to male friendship and male love – muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving, here’s a link…
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Saturday Poetry
I love poetry, I love words, pictures, music, people and the combination of these is the utmost thrill to me. I am introducing a new section, simply titled, Saturday Poetry. Each Saturday I will publish a poem from a new and wonderful book, with a link if you wish to purchase the entire thing. Just a little something extra to enjoy the weekend. Today, I am publishing a poem by Andrew McMillian – Jacob with the Angel, from his book Physical. Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body – to male friendship and male love – muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We are witness…
