Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Poetry is Not for Me, But is it for You? 🌹🥀

After watching the TV series and reading the book 'PLUM' I couldn't help but think of the Cecil Day Lewis poem 'Walking Away', which inspired me to pick up my book of Cecil Day Lewis poems (which doesn't include that poem) and see if I could get back into it.

Paul Kelly says good poetry is like
a companion that follows you for life

Musician Paul Kelly Argues That Poetry "Enhances and Heightens Life", as I Slog Through a C.Day Lewis Book of Poems Considering Walking Away from Them?📖🖋🃏

But no, I couldn't, so I posted the book off to a Clunes bookshop for someone to buy who really does like poetry, unlike I do.

Clunes is the Bookshop Capital of Australia?🔖📖📚🌏

I dislike poetry as much as I love football, I realized after watching and reading PLUM.

PLUM by Brendan Cowell

You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover ... Especially if it's a Movie/TV Series Tie-in Cover?📕👍👀👎

Straight Talking English Podcast:
Cecil Day Lewis' 'Walking Away' 

The Great Political Films: There Will Be Blood

I never realized until last week that the Daniel Day Lewis movie 'There Will Be Blood' was based partly on Upton Sinclair's novel 'Oil!'.

Daniel is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon (1925–2009).

I've not read 'Oil!', but I did recently read Upton Sinclair's novel 'The Jungle' -

Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' is One of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die? 🐮🤠🐄

I found a podcast about poems called 'Read Me a Poem' when looking for a reading of 'Walking Away'.

'60 Yard Pass'

And thought to myself I bet there are no Charles Bukowski poems to be found here, but there were quite a few and I wondered if the anonymous requester of '60 Yard Pass' wasn't my old Sharkie mate Brendan Cowell?

I've got a feeling that someone with his love of poetry would be a regular to this site.

“Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski

“Nobody but you” by Charles Bukowski

Maybe I should just shut up about my disliking of poetry and go watch some football?-)

Saved by a Poem?

“The Courage of Shutting-Up” by Sylvia Plath

The Role of the (Tattoo) Artist?🎭🛸🃏🦈

Poetry and the Gift of Forgetting?