After a great experience in 2016, I just signed up to take part in National (Global) Poetry Writing Month 2017.
30 poems
30 days
April 2017
If you want to join the fun, you can sign up here.
Day: 01/03/2017
First, by how we Live
Never hesitate –
Proclaim and preach God’s pure truth
First, by how we live
written in response to today’s prompt at The Daily Post
‘St David’s Day’ – a poem by Stanley Cook
The land returns from Winter
like the Saint from pilgrimage
Bringing with him a bird and a flower
Over mountains like dragons turned to stone
Today repeats the yearly miracle
Along the valleys of the daffodil
And in the brightening sky above
St David’s emblem is the dove
Stanley Cook (1922-1991) was much admired in his lifetime but he never achieved the popular audience and critical reputation his work deserved. Cook went his own way, sanguine about the fashions of the poetry establishment, and quietly writing some of the most readable, intelligent and vividly achieved poems of our time.
