Tor is a term for a craggy outcrop or lookout.
Poesie: Frost’s Birches
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Poesie: Roethke’s In a Dark Time
Although thoroughly postmodern, the American poet Theodore Roethke would have been at home with almost any of the lyric poets of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Poesie: Burgess’ Purple Cow
Some poets live to regret having written wildly successful poems...
Our Own Dear John Ronald: Tuor
Tuor happens to be my favorite among Tolkien's characters. He was born in the wake of battle, both in Middle-Earth and in France.
Poesie: Two for 2020
Open wide the door, friends: The New Year is knocking.
Poesie: Tolkien’s The Last Ship
'I cannot come!' they heard her cry. / 'I was born Earth's daughter!'
Poesie: Merton’s Epitaph for John Paul
This is possibly the saddest poem I have ever read.
Poesie: Frost’s Fire and Ice
The truth is that Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned as a master-poet by world standards. - Robert Graves