Tag: Philip Larkin

Aha! I knew that opening of your plumbing poem sounded familiar. From Shakespeare's "Macbeth", the witches' refrain: "Double, double toil…

Thanks, Roy. I think the longer line and stanza lends itself nicely to descriptive narrative.

Warren, your poetry really hits the spot. There are tens of thousands of great C.S. Lewis quotes. You have chosen,…

We can hear each bird’s song as more than sound, and can see how majestically they’re crowned, and can enjoy…

A delightful poem - and I really like its underlying premise: actually, that the birth of someone else is more…