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Here's a quotation I am using to open my speech about my life's work, travelling as a travel writer, author, researcher and comic poet.
"The time has come," the walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax
And cabbages and kings -
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings."
Written by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
Published in 1872.
More than 100 years ago.
I hope Queen Victoria was amused. Most Victorians were. The book was a sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
The sequel was published in 1872 when witty Disraeli was still alive. 1872 was about eight years before my paternal great grandfather arrived in the East End of London, England, from Lemberg or Lvov in the Ukraine.
I've been researching my family history. Turning it into a comic novel. I tried writing a serious novel but it depressed me and I saw no point in depressing myself and the reader. Better to be like Fiddler on The Roof. The East End Cockneys and Jews were renowned for laughing at troubles.
I hope my comic poetry will still be popular in more than 100 years time.
A Hunded Years of Comic Terse
By Angela Lansbury
I hope that in a hundred years ahead
My verse will live 'though I'm more than half dead
So folks will still note cryptic words I wrote
Last wise, silly, fun words I never said.
I hope you're well dressed, well fed on seed bread
That your pillows are silk and your roses are red
That your life is ship shape with no holes in the boat
That couples still wed and kids are still bred.
I'm sure everybody, including you
Will still enjoy daft things I try to do
So for sad thoughts my joy's an antidote
From search-for-socks 'til bed-dead - without you.
-ends-
Copyright Angela Lansbury Oct 28 2014
Shakespeare said, "All's well that end's well."
See two books of quotations:
Quick Quotations for authors and speakers by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com) (Alphabetical by subject)
Who Said What What? by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com) (By day of the year)
See two books of comic verse about animals, A-Z
Angela's Alarming Animals by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com)
Poetry pets and pests by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com)
How to write poetry:
Petry Workshop Workbook by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com)
Writing Poetry for Fun by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com)
"The time has come," the walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax
And cabbages and kings -
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings."
Written by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
Published in 1872.
More than 100 years ago.
I hope Queen Victoria was amused. Most Victorians were. The book was a sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
The sequel was published in 1872 when witty Disraeli was still alive. 1872 was about eight years before my paternal great grandfather arrived in the East End of London, England, from Lemberg or Lvov in the Ukraine.
I've been researching my family history. Turning it into a comic novel. I tried writing a serious novel but it depressed me and I saw no point in depressing myself and the reader. Better to be like Fiddler on The Roof. The East End Cockneys and Jews were renowned for laughing at troubles.
I hope my comic poetry will still be popular in more than 100 years time.
A Hunded Years of Comic Terse
By Angela Lansbury
I hope that in a hundred years ahead
My verse will live 'though I'm more than half dead
So folks will still note cryptic words I wrote
Last wise, silly, fun words I never said.
I hope you're well dressed, well fed on seed bread
That your pillows are silk and your roses are red
That your life is ship shape with no holes in the boat
That couples still wed and kids are still bred.
I'm sure everybody, including you
Will still enjoy daft things I try to do
So for sad thoughts my joy's an antidote
From search-for-socks 'til bed-dead - without you.
-ends-
Copyright Angela Lansbury Oct 28 2014
Shakespeare said, "All's well that end's well."
See two books of quotations:
Quick Quotations for authors and speakers by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com) (Alphabetical by subject)
Who Said What What? by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com) (By day of the year)
See two books of comic verse about animals, A-Z
Angela's Alarming Animals by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com)
Poetry pets and pests by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com)
How to write poetry:
Petry Workshop Workbook by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com)
Writing Poetry for Fun by Angela Lansbury (Lulu.com)
