poem

This time of year invites us all, believers and atheists alike, to emerge from our own suspended animation or curled-up little balls, like cummings writes at the end of that poem:

“I once called Sonia Sanchez at like 10 o’clock at night to read her a poem,” he says.

The first song, to a poem by Daniel Hoffman, compares love to the seasons - ever changing and ever staying the same, while giving a nod to the King's love of nature and the environment.

Years later she penned a poem called "Cold Semolina", recalling that as she tried to comfort her friend she was sent to stand in a corner.

The painting, which is not currently displayed by the Tate, depicts scenes from Virgil's epic Latin poem the Aeneid, and is believed to be a commentary on the English Civil War.