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Celebrate and spurn

In his house on stilts high among beaks
And palavers of birds
This sandgrain day in the bent bay’s grave
He celebrates and spurns

Dylan Thomas, Poem on his birthday

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6 Responses to “Celebrate and spurn”
  1. Charles says:
    February 12, 2009 at 4:42 am

    Hey, that was fun. And the poems Helen & I wrote were really good ones – not just writing exercises. Bust the dam holding in my muse this year and more, too, thank you.

    Can I join / start another chain, please?

  2. editor says:
    February 13, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Hi Charles. So glad you enjoyed it. Do you have a partner in mind?

  3. Charles says:
    February 18, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    A partner in mind, eh?
    Difficult, as I don’t know any poets I don’t know – or is that not a requirement any more? Who have you got?

  4. editor says:
    February 20, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    It is still a requirement – I will keep you in mind when more partners come up.

    I wondered if the process made you write differently. Did they feel like poems you’d only write in response?

  5. Charles says:
    February 28, 2009 at 7:22 am

    Having an initial poem of Helen’s to respond to gave me a kind of responsibility: I think part of the reason I had dried up until this project was the lack of an occasion to write. Left to my own devices I wallow and, recognizing that, usually give up.

  6. David Mcclay says:
    February 9, 2010 at 10:26 am

    Thanks to this post I do not seem like an idiot. I had an argument with my wife and this proves I was right. Thanks!

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