REELY'S POETRYBLOG

Stevie Smith (nee Florence Margaret Smith) was an eccentric British writer, whose poems are sometimes rather strange, but often quite delightful. My favorite is The Galloping Cat:
Oh I am a cat that likes to
Gallop about doing good
So
One day when I was
Galloping about doing good, I saw
A figure in the path; I said
Get off! (Be-
cause
I […]

Let’s read this today to celebrate the birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien (1/3/1892-9/2/1973), famous author of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall […]

We have an uninvited guest in our office — a mouse. My boss is an animal lover and he is trying to catch him to put him outside, but he won’t do it this week. “It’s too cold for the litter feller,” he said. “That’s what they have fur for,” another employee […]

A Hungarian poet who is very famous in Hungary, Sándor Petõfi was born in 1823 and no one really knows when he died. He disappeared in 1849 at the age of 26. In the preceding years, however, he published 10 volumes of poems.
I found a very sweet poem, which I hope you enjoy, […]