More words and pictures....

Thank you all for your comments about my sketchbook pages. I'm glad to read that a couple of you may take Sue's lead and post some of your own. I've just been reading Sara's post at Double Elephant about hers and they are wonderful. Rush here to have a look please. After my post I picked up another sketchbook and found it was one that I'd recorded various poems in. I'll often jot words down or notes about poems in any notebook I am carrying and I found a reference to a poem by John Cooper Clarke. I came across it at an exhibition in Cardiff, on a piece of work produced by calligrapher Elizabeth Forrest and just had to write it down there and then. It still makes me smile. It may not be new to you but just in case it is, see what you think....

Let me be your vacuum cleaner

Breathing in your dust

Let me be your Ford Cortina

I will never rust

If you like your coffee hot

Let me be your coffee pot

You call the shots

I wanna be yours

Let me be your raincoat

For those frequent rainy days

Let me be your dreamboat

When you wanna sail away

Let me be your teddy bear

Take me with you anywhere

I don't care

I wanna be yours

Let me be your electric meter

I will not run out

Let me be the electric heater

You get cold without

Let me be your setting lotion

Hold your hair with deep devotion

Deep as deep as the Atlantic Ocean

That's how deep is my emotion

Deep deep deep deep de deep deep

I don't wanna be hers

I wanna be yours

image from the BBC

........and from the ridiculous to the sublime, if you want an audible treat have a listen to this programme on Radio 4 this week. It was in the Afternoon Play slot but it was readings of the poem 'A Sleepwalk on the Severn' by Alice Oswald. I've posted about Alice Oswald's work before so I am a fan but even I couldn't believe how wonderful this programme was. I've already listened to it again on the BBC i player. It is all about moonrise over the Severn Estuary and follows the moon in her five phases : new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon and moon reborn

I was always taught that if poetry baffles you, read it aloud and all will fall into place. Next best thing is to listen to someone talented read it aloud for you. They paint word pictures for you that come alive in your head. I sound a bit like I'm 'away with the fairies' don't I? I don't mind. This is a real gem and should be enjoyed by as many people as possible!