[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Saturday Poem (one word changed) & Ian Rankin on pubs
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:58:09 -0800
On Jan 27, 2007, at 6:28 AM, Ursula Stange wrote:
If you're looking for a show
of hands, I preferred the 'called'
alliteratively yours,
Ursula
A show of hands is almost always helpful, especially since the poems I
send to the list are less than a week old and sometimes very fresh
indeed. "Too fresh," comes a retort. If that's your view (or beef),
I'll concede.
The minute I left the computer, which was after I drafted a very
different poem that turned out to be hidden-- like a bus in London--
behind this one, I decided, "called *out*" was better than either
option. Now I'll have to look again at the scanning.
As I walked up the stairs to bed, I suddenly remembered what rhythm had
been in my mind at the starting point of the poem. It was a hymn I
haven't heard since childhood, "We plough the fields and scatter, the
good seed on the land."
Different subject entirely: The Scotsman today has a meditation by Ian
Rankin on the nature of pubs:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=139322007
Again I find the commentary afterwards interesting.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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