Craig Space: Poetry
A sunset in Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
From my Photos page.
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Poetry
"The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on, nor all your tears, nor all your piety, can cancel scarcely half a line."
--Omar Khayam, "The Rubaiyat"
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"Our town has been infested for several weeks past with a company of strolling players issuing their hand-bills of monkey-shines purporting to be theatrical performances, by which means they have contrived to shave the unwary and thoughtless of their money, and keep up their midnight revels to the no small detriment of the morals of society...
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What right has a company of vagrant players, more than any other company of vagrants, to run at large without pursuing any honest means of livelihood? Do our authorities wish the morals of our youth reduced to a more degraded state than it is?"
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-- Mackenzie King, firebrand, revolutionary, mayor and newspaperman, in his newspaper, the Colonial Advocate, York (Toronto), July 25th, 1833
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Poetry is a difficult but vital artform. Here are some interesting poems I've come across, selected for various inexplicable reasons.
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Craig Space
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