Today, Day 687 of the daily poems 21 October 2024, is the 252nd anniversary of the birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834.  Is this our poet AndyRoo? It is an ancient Mariner, and he stoppeth one of three. With his long grey beard and glittering eye, “I have a short Found Poem for thee!  It… Continue reading

Our poet Wendy Webb adapts the text of an article in the Eastern Daily Press, adding her own interpretations in this tale of two tragedies.  Day 686 of the daily poems. Suspension failure After reporter Caroline Culot, Eastern Daily Press 30 January 2021 The Suspension Bridge Tavern has historyand can be found – for now –… Continue reading

On Day 685 of the daily poems our poet Mary L Walsh has derived, from the poems of DH Lawrence, a found poem using two lines from each of the first three poems and one from the last.  As I went throughcompiled from some poems of DH Lawrence As I went through the marshes,The little river… Continue reading

In this Found Poem our poet Alwyn Marriage has taken the words of the Spanish Carmelite friar St John of the Cross (1542–1591) and has woven them into poetic form.  It is Day 684 of the daily poems. Nothing more, nothing less When the evening of this life comes when? when?when the eveningof this life finally… Continue reading

Day 683 of the daily poems: the source text for today’s Found Poem, by our poet Colin Hopkirk, is reported speech heard from rambling conversations in the same pub, over two nights … Pub lore Several betrayalsAt least one deathCurses, promisesThe moonThe meaning of the moonStrangers, strange weatherLove or hate it, you have to admitGod… Continue reading