Favourite Poets, again

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W. B. Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

This is the first poem I ever memorised fully. It makes me cry. We studied it in school once, and another girl in my class cried at it. It does that to people, maybe because it makes me believe that love is selfless.

'to the universe' by Ameerah Arjanee

Ameerah Arjanee, who is one of the 14 poets that came on the Arvon course as a prize from the Foyle Young Poet's award is releasing a book of her poetry called 'to the universe' soon. This doesn't surprise me one bit because she is fantastically prolific as well as being a great poet. She must have a very talkative muse, or something, I don't know. I came with six poems to the retreat, all folded into little squares and an empty notebook, and she had this massive stack of them. It was quite daunting. Anyway, I will update this when her launch event at Institut français de Maurice in Marituis (why, oh why, is it so far) happens, and also I will probably order it. So, that's cool. She's a poet to watch out for.