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[jobee]

Originally Posted by Shizara

There are many writers that I have amongst a list of favourites and indeed, some of my teddy collection are thus named after them. Tennyson, Stephenson, Byron, Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Without a doubt Robert Louis Stephenson is probably my favourite. As a child who loved poetry I was a regular attender at Sunday School. One year I was given, for my attendance record, a book entitled "A Child's Garden of Verses". The poem that stood out for me was entitled "Travel"...

I should like to rise and go
Where the golden apples grow;--
Where below another sky
Parrot islands anchored lie.....

This painted the most amazing pictures in the mind of a child and of course fueled the dreamy imagination that lies within. Without a doubt he has to be my favourite poet.

As a contrast, though I realize you didn't ask for that, Dr Seuss was very much a childhood favourite. He not only wrote in rhyme form which you could read superficially but there were lessons contained within as well.

I have no favourite poets. There are many artists I like, two that spring to
mind are Jacob Van Ruisdael and Henri Rousseau.

[Madhatter]

Don't you dare change your style because those brainless planks on cov web criticise.
They know nothing.

[jobee]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

Don't you dare change your style because those brainless planks on cov web criticise.
They know nothing.

Thanks Hatter- they won't discuss my latest one on there.

Coventry Web

[cathidaw]

Originally Posted by jobee

What is your favourite poem AND artist?

When I stopped to think about my favourite poems I realised that they all have the same underlying theme - freedom . What does that say about me?

John Masefield and his 'Tewkesbury Road' 'Sea Fever' and 'The Vagabond

I remember sitting in my classroom reading these , staring out of the window and daydreaming about the day when I was grown up and could 'do what I liked' I could go tinkering around the countryside in a little caravan, doin g a bit of work here and there to survive., lazing in the sun reading (maybe poetry too) whever Iwished.
Of course the weather would always be sunny, I would never feel lonely or unwell.
Iwould never be bored like I was- sitting here learning poetry by rote, or doing lessons which would never be any use.
This is what poetry does .it is so emotiveand takes you into other worlds.
Since I have grown up 'a bit' (and my life has fortunately not been as I
wished in that classroom) I still love poetry and do write a little and so do my family, (they say they can knock a ditty out now and again if necessary)
I also believe that a fanatical poetry teacher helps. Unfortunately it does not appear to be taught in senior schools now.
I love ' Khubla Khan ' and heard it on radio4 last week-Igot a shiver of delight up my back. Does anyone listen to 'Poetry Please'
Iwent to see 'Under Milk Wood' at the Talisman in Kenilworth a few weeks ago
and was very disappointed. Could not hear the narrators very well. I think they were savouring the wonderful words and saying it to themselves.
Enough of that.
I paint a bit and do voluntary teaching once a week, drawing and painting.
One of my favourite artists is Alphonse Mucha. I went to to the Barbican to see his first exhibition in England.
Iremember it well as Ihad a tickly cough and spent half of the time coughing madly in the cloakroom
I love reading the poems in this chatline and I'm glad they mostly rhyme. Some of the others are too clever for me. so Jobee dont do too much prose.

I cannot see why jobee was banned, belief in a non -caring God is very silly.