Writing For The Sake Of Writing

[poliphilo]

 Yesterday morning we woke to mist on the low ground but the full Moon beaming from a clear sky. It was a super Moon I'm informed. Afterwards we had a lovely clear day and I let the grass dry a little in the sun and then I cut it. In the afternoon we sat out on the patio and drank tea with Terry who is giving up his apartment and leaving some suitcases with us while he decides where to go next. I like to sit out on the patio in Spring and Autumn but not so much in summer.

This morning we woke to rain and I cleared out the gutters (see previous post) but  the rain cleared off and the sun came out and I planted daffodil bulbs until I decided I'd had enough of it. My project for this Autumn (I've just decided) is to fill the furthest part of the lawn with daffodils- my favourite flower. This afternoon I spent more time on the patio and drank tea and read some random poems from my Collected Kipling. He wrote so many and I keep finding ones I don't know. and which- at least when I'm reading them- seem to belong among his best. Did he ever publish anything in verse that wasn't, at the very least, clever and well-turned?

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[sovay]

He wrote so many and I keep finding ones I don't know. and which- at least when I'm reading them- seem to belong among his best.

Which ones are new to you?

[poliphilo]

A couple about ex-servicemen going up to university after the Great War- "The Scholars" and "The Clerks and the Bells".