Fox on a Boat

Little boat on the Thames National Poetry Day is nearly over already. The theme this year was 'water', and I have shared a couple of watery poems on my page, and will now share some more here. I hope you all had fun today - possibly some of you attended poetry events. I didn't go anywhere this year, but I still had some poetry fun at home. Without further ado, here are the poems I picked: First in line is Seamus Heaney's Storm On The Island . A very watery poem, but hold on to your hats - it's no breezy sailing.. (ha..ha..) Next up is Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-cat . I'm very serious. It's a water poem (well, all right, not all of it...), but it is fun. And finally, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land There is a lot of water in there! In part  'III. The Fire Sermon', there are quite a few lines about the Thames - oh, I love the Thames!  I wish I could have picked more poems, but oh, I don't know enough watery ones! I will...

For this poem I used the ' erasure' prompt from NaPo. Can you guess which poem I used?  Erasure Breeding lilacs, mixing Memory with spring rain. Covering life with A shower of sunlight And coffee. Children out on a sled, frightened In the mountains. You cannot say where the sun beats the dry stone. There is something different from Your shadow at morning Or at evening, rising in a handful of dust.            Hyacinths Speak, and knew nothing.  Light, silence.     Cold pearls I do not find   Under the fog  In your garden. Poem used: ' The Wasteland ' by T.S. Eliot.