December 2023: Poetry Night

Our final 2023 meeting was our Annual Poetry night. It was lovely to see everyone and to listen to a wonderful selection of poems. 

Here is a list of the works read with links to the poems, if available:

1. 1. 1. T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock

      2. Langston Hughes, “Daybreak in Alabama,” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150974/daybreak-in-alabama

      3. John Roedel, “An Open Poem to a World Weary Empath,” https://www.johnroedel.com/post/an-open-poem-to-a-world-weary-empath

      4. Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Dirge Without Music,” Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay | Poetry Foundation

      5. Pat Schneider, “The Patience of Ordinary Things” https://grateful.org/resource/patience-of-ordinary-things

      6. Elizabeth Alexander, “Butter,” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52416/butter-56d230df0abef

      7. Alastair Reid, “Daedalus,” https://poetryarchive.org/poem/daedalus/

In addition to these works, we were treated to another fun performance by Pat Wright, who shared a piece that she wrote for a comedy class. It had us all giggling and sometimes shifting a little uncomfortably, as the topic involved the lead up to a recent colonoscopy!