Poetry Friday - The Round Up

A Poetry Friday Haiku
From near and from far
Bloggers come to share their poems
It is the round-up

And now for a real poem, by a real poet.

Still I Love to Rhyme
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Still I love to rhyme, and still more, rhyming, to wander
Far from the commoner way;
Old-time trills and falls by the brook-side still do I ponder,
Dreaming to-morrow to-day.

Come here, come, revive me, Sun-God, teach me, Apollo,
Measures descanted before;
Since I ancient verses, I emulous follow,
Prints in the marbles of yore.

Still strange, strange, they sound in old-young raiment invested,
Songs for the brain to forget -
Young song-birds elate to grave old temples benested
Piping and chirruping yet.

Thoughts? No thought has yet unskilled attempted to flutter
Trammelled so vilely in verse;
He who writes but aims at fame and his bread and his butter,
Won with a groan and a curse.

Welcome to the The Poetry Friday Roundup. Thanks to HipWriterMama for showing me how to work Mr. Linky. Leave your name, the specific url of your poetry post, and add a comment on what your poetry submission is all about. Then, pour yourself a glass of wine, and enjoy a Literary Happy Hour. Cheers.

Next week the round-up is at a wrung sponge.

With Father’s Day this weekend Jen Barney, John Mutford, Becky at Farm School, and the Wordy Girls all share poems about fathers.

There were several Haikus this week from Kim at Hireath, Leslie’s husband at Lex Venit, and What Adrienne Thinks About That.

Dogs and other animals (including bugs) made their appearance at Amick’s Articles, Adventures in Daily Living, The Write One and Liz in Ink.

With Yeats’ Birthday coming up Michele and Kelly shared some of his work.

Motherreader and Blog from the Windowsill shared songs.

A Year of Reading brings us a Fable, and Miss Erin provides us with a cautionary tale.

Reviews of poetry books were brought to us by Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Chicken Spaghetti, A Chair a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy, and Biblio File.

There are original poems at a wrung sponge (an Ode to a retired rag doll), Karen Edmisten (a very thoughtful poem by her daughter), Above the Clouds (where Lana G stops off for some coffee), at The Miss Rumphius Effect Tricia was inspired by her trip to China and at Brand New Ending (a poem inspired by her son).

Elaine brings us a interview with a poet, and a post about a poet.

Kimberly at Lectitans celebrates the end of school.

At Charlotte’s Library we have tips for memorizing a poem and Journey Woman introduces us to a new way to look at a poem.

And there is a little Snow White from Akelda the Gleeful.

At Fuse #8 Productions, we have a delightful poem about picky lovers.

Monica at Books are our Friends shares an Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Maureene has a little ee cummings.

NYC Teacher has a beautiful poem by Myra Cohn Livingston, and Kelly at Big A little a shares a little Baba Yaga.

At Digital Changeling there's a poem about a Railway Engineer.

And Melissa Wiley’s thoughts turn to the sea and to Walt Whitman.

If a post fit more than one category, I only mentioned it once (there was one post that would have fit in three!)

Edited to add two more Father's Day themed poems at HipWriterMama and Poetry for Children.

Edited to add again: Little Willow shares a little Robert Frost.