REELY'S POETRYBLOG

ahhh .. or maybe I should say uhhhh.  I finally got this wordpress blog installed and hopefully I will have a few things to blog about when time permits. 

Since I probably won’t just stick to poetry and literature, I’ve even put in some additional categories, but I did just get a copy of Wuthering Heights and I’m getting the Masterpiece Theatre Wuthering Heights, which covers the entire book, unlike the more famous Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier film.  I got into this because I happened to see this film about a week and a half ago on TMC.  I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid, but the only part I could recall was Laurence, I mean, Heathcliff, hovering over Cathy’s bed as she dies.   I was too young at the time to appreciate what a great Healthcliff he was.  Dang, he was good-looking.   That’s rare, ain’t it?  When the leading man is hotter than the leading lady.  

Not that Merle Oberon wasn’t beautiful (you could see Vivien Leigh in the role, too, which Olivier wanted, but that same year, she got the Scarlett role).  This also led me to look up Merle Oberon’s life, which was something right out of Imitation of Life.  Actually there was a miniseries based on Merle’s life, Queenie.  Funny - I must have seen it, in the 70s and 80s, I was a rabid miniseries fan, but don’t recall ever reading it was about her. 

Reely

latest poem additions:
Echo by Christina Rosetti - a poem of love lost to death
Music on Christmas Morn by Anne Bronte - the emotions brought by music on Christmas morning; and
The Duel by Eugene Field - all about how ‘the gingham and calico’ flew when the gingham dog and the calico cat went at it.  This last poem is being sung by that wonderful voice artist, Tracey Rolfe.  Tracey actually is the voice on all these poems, but, as it happened, she knew this poem as a song.  It’s great and Tracey’s voice is great!