[lit-ideas] Re: poem

  • From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:47:48 +0000 (GMT)

--- On Wed, 17/11/10, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Thanks to those who said they liked my poem.  And thanks to those who didn't 
>say they didn't like it.  : )>

My comment:-

"In September, I touched you
and you looked away.
I heard the leaves die."

Auden, Yeats, and perhaps even Eliot would, I think, have finished "I heard 
that leaves die," for reasons too numerous to mention.

Where that puts me?

Donal
London

 






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