Author Archives: rdavies

Snoop Dog has given up smoking weed.

snapping fingers whistling, especially of melodies. Often boys and men would whistle while doing nothing in particular and to make music. Whistling was one way to entertain oneself when walking or working alone.

whereby school children go to cemeteries to leave poppies on deceased soldiers’ graves is an excellent way to honour the dead who fought in wars to safeguard our country, other countries, and the world. For me, this is a significant, … Continue reading →

One of those many ‘leftovers’ from a poetry presentation to senior high teachers I, ironically, never got to try myself. Remembrance Day: War Poetry Read John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields”, then discuss how war has provoked much writing on the … Continue reading →

used in a tv commercial as usual. The commercialization of Christmas has long been bemoaned going back to a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem from his 1958 classic A Coney Island of the Mind: Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this … Continue reading →

is liable to get stolen and sometimes even bolted things get stolen, too. Like the 6 million 18-carat gold toilet that’s been stolen from an English palace, as reported today.

Works for me. Peaches from the sunny country that gave us Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Herodotus, Zorba the Greek, the Grecian marbles, and the British Museum’s Grecian urn which inspired Keats to write his famous ode. A vision of dark blue … Continue reading →

apparently, for a mere $300 /hr. (by yourself, no one else in the room). I visited for free twice on my early 1990’s fall New England literary trips (in the company of a few other tourist-fans). Both times, her famous … Continue reading →

Leonard Cohen passed in 2016; the Thanks for the Ride memorial CD was assembled by his son Adam Cohen in 2019. Leonard started with poetry and finished the same way. These 9 poems have been set to music by Adam … Continue reading →