YOUTUBE LINKS

SPORTING LIFE

An interest in sport ( and in younger days participation) is another part of my life alongside poetry .

This short series combines the two.It commences with Kobe Bryant's 'Dear Basketball'

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eKL8UAX0UGA

my last sport as a participant ,riding.

Here is a poetic clip thereon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xmNuTOKl8vU

The penultimate ekphrasis in this short series is from Michael Longley and his poem on Lowry''s painting Man lying on a Wall at this link

https://sites.google.com/site/manlyingonawall

and recited clip thereof at

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9x36bOoYxgA

Since a very young child AssocIation Football(soccer) has been at the forefront of my sporting pastimes as this poetic clip indicates

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KxW69EMN-T0

and this you tube poetic clip explains this particular sporting dream of what once was the 'beautiful game'

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A9bexIfZbRs

Before my interest in poetry,I recall perhaps the most well remembered,(or at least the most well known) were the interview poetic clips of the boxing legend Ali

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_ZPwes9EQ?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J50UFKM-wg4

This third in my series features a couple of poetic clips about golf which featured in my sporting life..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=5s&v=CChYRdSJBwk

And..in similar vein

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur4Y9CQT6fM

Cricket was a very early passion which I played until my early forties,and which is still my ' first ' sport ,here is youtube poetic clip thereon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bMl328Ujw

MUSIC YOUTUBE LINKS

MUSIC AND POETRY

Music has run alongside my poetic life ( as my Happening ear candy poetry postings reveal)This short blog series illustrates it has ever been thus for poets,we commence with this clip..

I am in need of music by Elizabeth Bishop

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gs8K7936-H

this clip of Satie the avant garde conposer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4bxHman6q_4

The penultimate clip in yhis short series is Music by Walter de la Mare

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yNradNWlAnE

This clip of The Guitar by F G Lorca continues our series of music and the poetic life

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcXUfkKBHA

The music of Vivaldi in the youtube clip continues this series of the two art forms so close to my heart

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wgv8Ke3Sjos

In our series today,perha@ps one of the oldest exaamples of this genre, My Lute Awakes by Thomas Wyatt in this youtube clip

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INulZpj2PDA

The second clip in the short series is Langston Hughes with The Weary Blues

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6WXHt1faF4

POETS ON POETRY

POETS ON POETRY

Poets by definition have the best perspective upon poetry,here in the first of this short series is Neruda''s take in this clip of. ?poetry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r2x1w5rMHYM

To conclude this series my take on poetry with this clip A WORDSWORTH

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zh7Gn5MBg3k

The penultimate in this series is Dylan Thomas Notes on the art of poetry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_47cpNHOfw

Billy Collins with his Introduction to Poetry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lf69NbUlZXk

Next in this series my famousv namesake Mark Strand with Eating Poetry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WmGvkfA1WDE

The second clip in this series is Mcliesh''s Ars Poetica

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdLZBlYEt_A

POETRY OF THE WORKPLACE

WORKPLACE

This short series concludes with my Clerk's Chronicle clip

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYg9uGk1uns

The penultimate clip in this series is Digging from Nobel prize poet Seamus Heaney

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=2s&v=61zlSYgFwmk

Growing old comes with time,here is Yeats take upon this universal happening

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ttlSOHESJE

The Secretary Chant by Marge Piercy is today's clip on this theme

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DRybqWfKJJk

Today's clip on this theme is Village Blacksmith by Longfellow

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=myBPSyyNa4k

Today ,the English poet John Betjeman with The Executive

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TBhTSnr2Gh8

The latest in these short series of mine,illustrates poets in that every day scene of working life we all participate(d) in one way or another.Commencing wth this clip of Gary Snyder 'Hay for Horses'

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uwFimApuhxs

POETIC PERCEPTIONS

Image” that ..unique instant of time.. the presentation of which gives a sense of sudden liberation; a sense of freedom from time ... and space .. that sense ... experienced in the presence of works of art..unrepeatable.. tangible to the moment.. to present one Image in a lifetime better than volumes of wordplay

The poet's way with words succintly describes the human plight.This latest series exemplifies how this poetic gift has often become a part of the commonplace vernacular.

We start with Everything has a season - from the Preacher ,son of David,known under the pen name Ecclesiastes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GsKQZ7yS72g

Today a wise observation upon life from Rudyard Kipling' s poem If...and remaining steadfast

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQPHkYLayM

Music ,so often is intertwined with love ,and reflects unsaid words in that regard as the master craftsman poet wrote in this clip ...if music be the food of love

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjeN52C9gn0

Love all consuming ,at the heart of everyone'existence perceived here by Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s classic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9ycWMiTkw

We all are impacted by death,here is Auden' s famous poem Funeral Blues

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Veoxcceo0Ro

Life..so often about choices...as in this 'Road taken'' clip of Frost famous poem

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5hwUrBgZeUA

A wise observation about patience from Milton in this clip..they also serve

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ttlkFdrK9Yw

Tennyson's observation about love is our clip today

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JKeLydHAroM

Growing old comes with time,here is Yeats take upon this universal happening

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ttlSOHESJE

A thing of beauty is a joy forever...a clip from the pen of Keats

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgU8KiXkB6E

The cry of those growing old by Mathew Arnold

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBPBY7qQBs

This second poetic clip is the universal experience of the ephmerality of life in this American Cinquain by the US magist poet Adelaide Crapsey

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzlPoR0SCk

POETIC PREFERENCES

My poetic hobby was initiated by my fascination with words and commenced with an alliteration that appealed enough for it to be published.

Here is a clip of a poem by Gerald Manley Hopkins in this style

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjy7YrT2vs

The American cinquains of Adelaide Crapsey ,as exampled in this enigmatic imagism clip of her November Night is the complementary part b aspect of this preference of mine

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Una0VG0Qkdo

The second influence I encountered on my poetic path was JAPANESE IMAGERY initially with the haiku in its original ethnic style as exampled here by the translations of the master thereof Basho in this clip

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OLD9blmp7ms

leading to the longer tanka preference, English language style as in this clip

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTnp5NEfCNs

have been captivated by how folk took to my footle with wit and humour ,none more so than this sequenced variation from way back when from Sean Kelly...

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/footlevisit_to_the_dentist_144462

To complete this preference of wit etc ,clerihew from the master thereof himself exampled in this clip

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ylPbotycTU

presentational 'style' ...

namely ...open verse line break style ,......once described as

'a device to resolve the conflict between form and freedom in verse'

and..is perhaps best understood ,as exampled in this clip of a Marianne Moore poem

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TGE-2E7Bp_g

and visually ,as illustrated in this W C Williams link

http://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/williamswc/Perfection.html

Whatever the form,short or long my first preferences will always be the poetics ..a difficult concept to define but perhaps best illustrated ..as in the this clip from addenda 23 by Samuel Beckett

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2zxSZbm9xw

Easy on the ear and eye ,the 'formal poetry,' (inc rhyme) of the style of Timothy Steele as in this link

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/memphis-airport

Modern imagism of the commonplace, of the everyday as exemplified in this clip of the master of this genre,the US poet , August Kleinzahler

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jdsPmAW-qOU

Bio narratives in the poetic style of Seamus Heaney as in these clips

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uF0U0pVK0bk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HhBK5_zLwJY&t=32s

The combination of art with poetry after the Japanese haiga has enable me to combine my two retirement hobbies,here is a sample clip of mine

http://haiga-ichthys.blogspot.com

and a youtube clip thereon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3YzRYfiNGnk