Husband Husband (four lines from a poem by Robert Burns)

[quincydubois]

yer an eedgit!!



[weegingayin]

@quincydubois Nae hot pea speeshul fur ewes ren Jimmy!!!

[quincydubois]

awah an bile yer heed!! ... keep the good poems coming ... can i request The Bridge on the Silvery Tay?

[Rutle]

I love your readings of Burns poems you've inspired me to read more of his works.

[weegingayin]

@Rutle Thanks for listening. He might have been a socialist/feminist before such things were even heard of.

[ctrymaus]

He was ahead of his time! :-)

[krabbers]

i should do some poems. i have a little booklet "teaching penguins Morse code" with 20 or so poems from years back

[weegingayin]

@krabbers Reading poems is a lot easier that memorizing chords and words... I think you could do a "Wednesday Ode" and make it a feature that folks would look forward to in the middle of a busy week.

[krabbers]

@weegingayin good idea Bob i might start tomorrow

[songblurred]

I am just reading about his love life, though. He might not have thought of them as slaves, but they were at least occasionally his playthings. Or so it at least seems. It's hard to get a full appreciation from the stuff I am reading here online.

[weegingayin]

@songblurred He was a rake, a womaniser, as fond of women as he was of whisky, had many children out of wedlock, was summoned to the stool of repentance, an elevated seat in a church used for public penance of persons who had offended against the morality of the time, often through fornication and adultery. A working man's poet, a tenant farmer who wrote against privilege and class. Witty romantic, a lover of wine women and song. He has an heir is Charles Bukowski :-)

[songblurred]

@weegingayin I am not sure Bukowski was interested in much beyond Bukowski. As much as I love some of his work, he seems pretty self-absorbed to me. Burns may have lived primarily to fulfill his own passions, but he seems to have had broader interests. Anyway, sure enjoying the Burns celebrations.

[weegingayin]

@songblurred I sat by the fire today and did four recitations. When I was a boy we did not have a TV, my father and I would side by the fireside and he would read read Burns to me. We had a coal fire and there was a canopy on the fire that we used to rest our feet on. Toast our socks

My father said that I was so lazy that I had said to him. "Lift me back from the fire I'm burning" I am sure I never said that, and was persuaded that it must be a quote from Burns... but I have never found it.

[cinderellalifestyle]

@weegingayin gone is the stool (public penance..sounds as tho Burns was a down to earth, man. loved your toasted socks accounting....!

[weegingayin]

@cinderellalifestyle There is nothing finer than toasting your toes at an open fire.