photo: Britta On tubers stored in a better season,
Our honey and heaven;
Only our love can store such food.
Is this to make a god of absence?
A new-born monster to steal our sustenance?
(from At Parting )
Thank you, Rosemary and your wonderful blog "Where Five Valleys Meet"!
You quote a line from one of Anne Ridler's poems, so I asked you who the poet was - and thus found a treasure! Born in London 1912 Ridler worked as a journalist and then at Faber and Faber. She was encouraged by T.S.Eliot when he saw her poems. Very late in her life, in 1995, she released Collected Poems - and was made an OBE in June of 2001, just a few months before her death.
(All these pearls of wisdom I found on "allpoetry.com", and this part of her poem too.)
And before you tell me: I know that tulips have bulbs, not tubers :-)
My dear bloggerfriends: We will not let a new-born monster , Co-vid 19, steal our sustenance!
I rediscovered poetry about 18 months ago and love finding new to me poets. Thanks for this post.
ReplyDeleteDear Terra, I'm glad you like it! For a long time I have written a blog, "Happiness of the Day" - which still exists - where I presented one poem, added a photograph that I have taken, and sometimes commented. If you want to have a look: www.burstingwithhappiness.blogspot.com . I really loved to write that blog - and maybe I'll start again, because at the moment there is so much time to do what one loves.
ReplyDeleteAfter Eliot's death she was largely ignored. And what a troubled man was Eliot.
ReplyDeleteBut Eliot died in 1965 (if I'm right), and she got her order for literature in 2001 - for me that is a sign that late bloomers have a chance!
DeleteYes, she got a late recognition, a second coming.
DeleteDear Britta - It gives me great pleasure to know that you are delighted to have discovered Anne Riddler. I only discovered her fairly recently myself when I attended a lecture given by Toby Faber, who is the grandson of Faber's founder.
ReplyDeleteWow, to attend to such a lecture - I would like that - especially now! Thank you again for another good recommendation, Rosemary.
DeleteI ordered Night Scented Stock seeds online last night. We will have our kitchen window box as usual this year.
ReplyDeleteWow - I like those!
ReplyDeleteAnd I found seeds of "Morning Glory" in one of my cabinets - will see of they resisted time.
I'd love to see your kitchen window - "as usual", that's the spirit.