Category: sea poetry
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Verse for Veterans: First Foe to Flanders Fields
by Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, […]
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I am sorry you had to leave Reine
in response to Linda Ronstadt singing Roy Orbison’s “Blue Bayou” alongside a Dag Hol painting of Reine, Lofoten, when unfinished I am sorry you had to leave Reine You could not stay with me, a middle-aged woman of the fjord, who from birth […]
Clattery MacHinery on Poetry 