We enjoyed our poetry session very much starting with Macavity The Mystery Cat.
Poetry By Heart | Macavity: The Mystery Cat
This is Horshams Causeway cat which is called Parsley.
NWR member recalls reading Old Possums Book of Cats regularly to her daughter.
We discussed the name of the band Mungo Jerry and it’s origins.
Andrew Lloyd web was inspired to write his musical Cats from T.S Elliots poetry too.
Many favourites were mentioned, read and shared. Some poignant. others funny, endearing and just rather special. ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ by William Wordsworth was a top favourite. We listened to Donna Ashworths poem ‘I missed you today which’ created an emotional reaction of sorrow. We enjoyed reflections on teenage years and Roger Mc Gough connection with Liverpool and Wendy Cope’s humour. The discussion on Keats and Byron who were epic rivals and finally To a Mouse by Rabbie Burns with a translation!
The Raven | The Poetry Foundation by Edgar Allan Poe
Warning by Jenny Joseph – Scottish Poetry Library
Last Journey – Funeral Poem by Timothy Coote – Funeral Celebrant in Kent – Marc Lemezma
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | The Poetry Foundation
Poetry By Heart | When We Two Parted by Byron,
Ode on a Grecian Urn | The Poetry Foundation by Keats
To a Mouse by Robert Burns – Scottish Poetry Library
Several members mentioned liking poetry more in later years.
Other favourites were ‘Tonight at Noon’ by Adrian Henri;
Spike Milligans Verse;
Rubaiyat of Omar;
Maya Angelou
Shirley Hughes and Julia Donaldson.
Summer With Monika by Roger McGough – Jim Dale
We finished with a discussion on lines from a touching poem
‘The Dance of the Starlings’ by Phillipa C from Horsham!