This Month is National Poetry Month, so I thought I would post my favourite poem. I used one verse for Michael in the Book of Rememberance and another for my mother in the same book. I have indicated the verses I used for each of them at the end of the poem.

The background is that it was written for his male lover when the lover died.

( On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake )
I hope you like it, and maybe you can post your own favourite poem as well so I can read it.

I realised that I still talk about Michael quite a lot, and wondered if you wanted to see some pictures of him....anyway I am posting them, so even if you are screaming NO! They are behind a cut, so you can skip!

( Michael )

Gonna go off and have some food now!

Edit, the guy in the icon? That is Frank, an ex-workmate from when I worked at Glasgow University