by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | AN
Where Cleanest Beauty Flies “Youths and maidens all blyhe and full of glee, carried the luscious fruit in plaited baskets; and with them there went a boy who made sweet music with his lyre, and sang the Linos-song with clear boyish voice.” ~ Samuel Butler’s English...
by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | AN, Ho, MU, OE, PO
Magnetized Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Just as a magnet attracts iron rings and induces in those rings the power to attract others, so the Muse inspires a chain of people possessed by...
by phillipw | Apr 30, 2020 | AN, OL
He and His Old English is so foreign to us now That most of us are lost if we attempt To read it. Modern words do not allow The old ones to come through. New words pre-empt The alphabet and sense of older terms. Some letters are too strange. Those...
by phillipw | Apr 30, 2020 | AN, OL
We Have to be More Sensitive than Bloodhounds in Oblivion “Apart from ‘Cædmon’s Hymn’, we cannot date any Old English poem.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The Story of Poetry, 11 The poets are completely lost. Those scops Have disappeared completely like a fog Told in a tale,...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | AN, IN, PR
Disc World: Soapstone Discs Found Thousands of Years Later in a Dried Up Watercourse Millennia ago, before CDs And DVDs, artistic discs were made In India with carved motifs to please Their owners. Birds were set into a braid With animals around the edges. ...
by phillipw | Apr 25, 2020 | AN, MA, MO
Who Gives a Fuck about Who the Mother of Mohammad Was? “Buddhist texts do not think it necessary to give her a stable name.” ~ Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka in Ancient India If you are destined for a Cheops place In history, your mother does not need A chiselled name. Men...
