Poetry has been very central in my life since my 12th birthday in 1963. My father gave me a 300 page book, The Golden
Treasury of Poetry, selected and with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer, and illustrated by Joan Walsh Anglund.
A few years ago, I retrieved the book from my parents and brought it back home to Kentucky with me. I've been enjoying discovering both remembered and unremembered poems. My adult tastes in poetry are rather different from the mostly rhyming poetry of this book. Once I discovered e e cummings and Carl Sandburg in high school, my poetic preferences underwent a tectonic shift, but I have enjoyed reading the poems in this Treasury especially out loud (to the amusement of my cats, and the occasional irritation of my husband). From the story poems of the Pied Piper of Hamelin to the limericks of Lear and everything in between, I enjoy the melodic lilt of the words.
2 comments:
Poetry brings so much joy to me. I don't know what I would do without it.
The poetry that you learn as a child, stays with you for life!
Have you tried writing poetry too.
I like little silly limerick type things that seem easier to make up.
Have a Happy Easter.
Maggie X
Nuts in May
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