Anyone like poetry?

[FrankHudson]

Originally Posted by FordGT

I have always loved Robert Service. He captures the outdoors and intense cold of Alaska such that I feel as if I am there. I know he doesnt rank with the " Greats" but I always enjoy his poems

Did you know that "Country Joe" McDonald (Yes, the I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die songwriter) did a whole LP singing Robert Service poems solo with just 12-string guitar and harmonica.

[frankmcr]

The Leaders of the Crowd

They must to keep their certainty accuse
All that are different of a base intent;
Pull down established honour; hawk for news
Whatever their loose phantasy invent
And murmur it with bated breath, as though
The abounding gutter had been Helicon
Or calumny a song. How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student’s lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.

- W.B. Yeats, 1904

[casualmusic]

Originally Posted by FrankHudson

Did you know that "Country Joe" McDonald (Yes, the I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die songwriter) did a whole LP singing Robert Service poems solo with just 12-string guitar and harmonica.

http://www.countryjoe.com/war.htm#munition

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2rexTs...bWNkb25hbGQ%3D

[PapaLobo]

I've written poetry for 50+ years , some become songs .