I-Like-Rhymes

• Last seen 4 hours ago. Member since February 7, 2006.
• My mood is , and quote is "Hey Ho!".
• I am a 57 year old man (England)
• When I'm not writing, I'm Reciting or singing shantys.
• I help out as a moderator manager
• I am in the groups Moderators
• I have 1,107 comments, 15 columns, 260 poems, 3 stories

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• Column: Allama Muhammed Iqbal at
  Most of us, poetry lovers or others, have read Allama Muhammed Iqbal at least some of him somewhere. To many he remained hard-to-understand philosopher poet. Iqbal has written pure poetry too which is equally remarkable. I like Dr Iqbal, one my favourite
• Column: October at allpoetry
  OCTOBER
  
  The conkers (horse chestnuts to the uninitiated) are falling of the trees and will soon be joined by the leaves. The dark mornings and even darker nights have arrived to make the daily commute to and from work even more depressing. The ch
• Column: The guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools at allpoetry
  When I was a youngster and, occasionally, listening to what my teachers would tell me, there were a lot of certainties in the things they would say. Not the least of these pronouncements were about what they called poetry, My English teacher, or should th

Guest Book

• iLikeGir on May 27

  hello im mary. ive always dreamed of going to college in England to be a vetrinarian. now that im 15, i have to consider these things. whats it like down there???
• dnoeman : "a year's spinning" on March 20

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• bigperm : hello on January 28

  Just wanted to say hi. I have been writing on AP for a little while and just started browsing some of the sister sites. I really had no motivation to read old poetry, per say, but this site has been very enfluencial to my muse the last couple of days. I've looked around this site and seen your name on many different aspects within. I just wanted to tell you that I really do appreciate what contributions your making here and basically...thanks.
• Mari Goes on July 14, 2008

  Happy Birthday!
  

Comments

• on Comin Thro' The Rye by Robert Burns, 1 day ago

  For Guest Emile

  It would appear that you have never walked through a field on a morning or after a storm. Speaking from long experience it is easy to get wet and bedragled in such circumstances from the dew or raindrops on the long grass (or in this case rye).
  
• on Christmas Landscape by Laurie Lee, on November 15

  Guest Musty

  Perhaps you could let us know what your correct version is and what your source is.
  Poets do sometimes change their poems as time goes by and some publishers accidentally alter the published works. Let us know the details and we will make sure things are correct here.
  Meanwhile I have corrected 2 typos and checked against Laurie Lee's own reading of this poem on the BBC.
  Jim
  Oldpoetry Research Team
• on The Three Little Pigs by Roald Dahl, on November 15

  For guest Lilly?

  If you click on Dahl's name at the top of this page you will find quite a bit of information on the man and his work!
  Jim
  Oldpoetry Research Team
• on Where The Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore, on November 15

  For Vivuyo

  Yes the national anthen was based on Tagore's poem
  
  Gandhi and Tagore were contemporaries (Tagore was only 8 years older) and there were many similarities as well as disagrements between the two but I don't believe they were related as such.
  An intersting comment Nehru Wrote:-
  Gandhi and Tagore. Two types entirely different from each other, and yet both of them typical of India, both in the long line of India's great men ... It is not so much because of any single virtue but because of the tout ensemble, that I felt that among the world's great men today Gandhi and Tagore were supreme as human beings. What good fortune for me to have come into close contact with them."
  Jim
  BTW
  The oldpoetry research team have a decent biography of Tagore on site. Just click on his name at the top of this page.
  Jim