Darling Iz
On your 10th Birthday I wrote you a story from 1977 when I was 10.
For your 11th birthday I gave you 111 songs.
Now you are twelve here are twelve poems for you.
I hope these poems feed your wonderful mind and help you to continue to look at the world a bit sideways.
Love always
Dad
The poems are:
e.e.cummings, somewhere...
T S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Pablo Neruda, Every day you play
Dylan Thomas, The force that through...
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gramsci’s Ashes
Simon Armitage, My Difference
W. B. Yeats, The Stolen Child
Ted Hughes, Heptonstall Old Church
Hera Lindsay Bird, Hate
Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time
Rainer Maria Rilke, A Walk
Peter Handley, Getting lost in the Shift.
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