Martin reminds me of meeting an old friend the other day he said remember
this poem ??(quite a long one for me!!)you wrote published it around 1959
-and I was a complete blank but was surprised how good it seemed to
be!!!!then later it came back plus some clues very strange feeling
Patrick of memory blanks!!
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Martin Walker
Sent: 03 April 2009 16:11
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Subject: poems by others
[THE OLD MAN]
The old man
In the mirror
Startles
Me
But the young man
In the photograph
Is stranger
Still.
George Oppen
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But I am but a nameless sort of person
(A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
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