Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Poetry

My latest correspondent Ezra has sent me an etegam illustrating his own poem. The poem is a little melancholy ( ( hope it is not his usual state of mind) and reminds me greatly of Keats whose epitaph
THIS GRAVE CONTAINS
ALL THAT WAS MORTAL OF
A YOUNG ENGLISH POET
WHO
ON HIS DEATH-BED
IN THE BITTERNESS OF HIS HEART
at the malicious power of his enemies
desired these words to be engraved
on his tomstone
"HERE LIES ONE WHOSE NAME
WAS WRIT IN WATER"
FEB 24 1821
is on his grave which lies beneath a sombre Yew in the Protestant cemetary in Rome.
Thank you Ezra and welcome to the etegami community.
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2 comments:

  1. Gay McKinnonFebruary 8, 2012 at 1:17 AM

    I've just looked at all the etegami on this page, and I just love them. This one is beautiful and the little harmonica is a gem. Re epitaphs, someone (maybe Mark Twain, or Spike Milligan) wanted his gravestone to read: 'I TOLD you I was sick', which I think is just perfect.

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  2. origa-meFebruary 8, 2012 at 3:23 AM

    Gay, there is a great joy in receiving these cards from someone you know only through them, like confiding a secret to a stranger! (I think it was Spike Milligan, Mark Twain said something to the effect "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated")

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