Sunday, January 13, 2019

THE WANDERER - MY POETRY BOOK SHELF


Introducing My poetry book shelf. A new Section of Moon Traveller Herald for 2019. Let's get it down!



Among the earliest poems in English is The Wanderer.The style then was musically heavy on alliteration which may have for those folks been a better mnemonic aid than rhyme. Grill Marcus spoke at one time about the Old Weird America. Here, the Old Weird Britain calls you by your name. Part of soliloquies bleak unto blues. Here's a bit:

Who liveth alone longeth for mercy
Maker's mercy
Though he must traverse tracks of sea
Sick at heart -
Trouble with oars ice cold waters
The ways of exile –
Weird is set fast.


Excerpt, p.70; The Wanderer, The Earliest English Poems, Penguin Classics, 1966

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