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    Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
    Selected Poems
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    Selected Poems

    By Richard Smythe

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    'Your smile, your lovely smile / Stirs my senses, as if / Waking to the first rays of an alpine sun / On the ridge of my tent, / I enjoy a spreading warmth........
    Richard Smythe's imagery goes straight to the heart of what it is like to be human, simply joyful or sad, expectant or fearful, but above all to feel the natural world, in all its wonder, to be a part of oneself in life and, at the end, in one's frailty and death.
    His poems span a lifetime's experience of music, mountains, teaching and acting from the dark years of the 1940's listening in bed to his mother playing Chopin to the present time when he wonders himself how he himself should be recalled: 'Carve no stone to remember me by / Lest it bruise you...........I would rather you / See me, feel me, like a child spreading his hands / On a couch of summer grass.
    Inside this slim volume the reader will find an immense variety of subjects and moods, from quiet, philosophical reflection in the Shropshire countryside to a light hearted playing with words, as in the melodramatic portrayal of the cyclical existence of the common earthworm, written to be performed from within a sleeping bag!
    Truly this is a book to be slipped into the pocket to provide pleasure at odd moments during a busy day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateSep 12, 2011
    ISBN9781456788667
    Selected Poems
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    Richard Smythe

    Richard Smythe graduated with an illustration master's degree in 2010 and has illustrated many successful picture books with his distinctive style. Richard loves working on picture books because no matter how simple the narrative, you can always read between the lines—the only limit is your imagination! Richard says of a recent book, "Watersong is a special book in which the story is told through onomatopoeia, using the sounds water makes. It was challenging to create a story around these words but, in the end, the story of a fox...seemed to shine through. Watersong was recently included in the New York Public Library's Best Books for Kids 2017 list."

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      Selected Poems - Richard Smythe

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      © 2011 by Richard Smythe. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 08/29/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-8865-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-8866-7 (ebk)

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      Contents

      Poems from Shropshire and beyond

      Bluebells

      In Granville Park

      Conjure not

      Give me March

      Spring evening on Church Aston Hill

      Winter’s End

      Heart of Oak

      A sad day

      Chopin at Night

      Three Early Poems from the 1960’s

      Drone’s Lament

      On the Terrace

      ‘Meet me at the Festival Hall’

      Light hearted verse

      Woeful awe

      The Turn of the Worm

      The Pianists of Uppingham

      The Wrist

      Poems of youthful love

      It was a Sunday

      The daffodils

      Your smile

      Was it you?

      Age

      Reflection

      House Clearance

      Not far now

      Tender wish

      Songs from the short children’s novel, ‘Basil the Bucket’,

      Sammy the Sand Eel’s Banter

      Middle Stump’s Complaint

      ‘Time’ by Mr. Rock

      Basil Bucket’s Thoughts

      Poems from Shropshire and beyond

      Bluebells

      Morning

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