Poetry performance by Luke Prodromou
Poetry performance by Luke Prodromou
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Who are you? Andrew Wright
Who are you,
standing there
in front of my door,
wearing a top hat,
crumpled,
concertinaed without music?
Was my door
once your door,
in the shadows
of time gone by?
I reach out with my thoughts
to shake your hand.
Did you feel it
as you stood there,
for the photo,
so long ago?
Please, please,
whisper to me,
down the long corridor of time.

Comment
I wrote the poem just thinking about the photo. Now I see the photo again I can see the top hat is not crumpled. If he whispers to me I will apologize about misrepresenting his hat in my poem. But why did my memory mislead me? I think the answer is that our friend Andy who tells ghost stories in Whitby, wears a crumpled hat. Here he is telling stories to my daughters Timea and Alex inside the ground floor room just behind the front door! The door where the man in the top hat was standing!

(Look up Argument Yard, Whitby on the Internet. Our house is number 1.)
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  • @user-hn1gw5my7b
    @user-hn1gw5my7b 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Υπεροχη ποιηση και αριστουργηματικη μελοποιηση! Ευχαριστουμε πολυ!

  • @GHJSK-yl9ho
    @GHJSK-yl9ho 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nicely presented

  • @vesnastojkovic1640
    @vesnastojkovic1640 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    🩵🩵🩵🌹🌹🌹

  • @MaSha-oy6xr
    @MaSha-oy6xr 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Touchant remember : Palestina à 16 ans sans Mahmoud Darwish

  • @KovidChitara
    @KovidChitara 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hi

  • @KovidChitara
    @KovidChitara 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Explain it

  • @annaterf6927
    @annaterf6927 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great

  • @AndreeaCe
    @AndreeaCe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I do not side with many women either because of good reasons.

  • @candypiker9746
    @candypiker9746 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Please do Sailing To Byzantium. I would love to hear you do that. I love your stuff by the way. You're Terribly underrated in my opinion.

  • @scarysoups2654
    @scarysoups2654 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am listening to this over and over to help me memorize for a final- this is one of the clearest readings as far as sound quality and diction, as well as conciseness when it comes to pauses / no filler noises / no background music. Thank you for including the whole soliloquy and Thank you for making this video. It has been really helpful.

  • @georgiaamiandidou5721
    @georgiaamiandidou5721 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very good!

  • @georgiaamiandidou5721
    @georgiaamiandidou5721 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant!

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yes. What a mystery - perhaps a miracle ? - Shakespeare was . How could he unerringly find the words to express our deepest feelings on any occassion ? There have been other great writers / poets in every Culture but none can match him.

  • @andrewwrightstoryman
    @andrewwrightstoryman 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A moving telling of a moving poem.

  • @FluffyFace-mj3ro
    @FluffyFace-mj3ro 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I adore this poem! And well read

  • @Hotspur77
    @Hotspur77 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enjoyed your reading. Prudent to select a section of this poem rather than read the whole thing. WBY has his longuers, as the best invariably do.

  • @nickmichelioudakis4300
    @nickmichelioudakis4300 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ...We love you, Luke.. ❣💗

  • @antoniettadeluca5730
    @antoniettadeluca5730 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How many people are experiencing such terrible grief in different parts of the world. So sad

  • @vaughnodonnell609
    @vaughnodonnell609 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "promosm"

  • @georgiaamiandidou5721
    @georgiaamiandidou5721 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very appropriate for today's recent events. Well said and well read!

  • @candypiker9746
    @candypiker9746 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing. Glad I found you, keep up the good work!

  • @Joshuadmathews
    @Joshuadmathews 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This past week I have attempted to dig into the topic of could Shakespeare's family read and write. So far my conclusions have lead me in the opposite direction. Judith Shakespeare (his second daughter), Anne (his wife), and his father, and Shakespeare's sister, all have strong indication that they probably did not know how to write. The same cannot be said of Shakespeare's mother, grandfather (Robert Arden), his two brothers, and his daughter, Susanna. The BBC documentary on Shakespeare's mother present good arguments on why his mother, Mary Arden, could read and write (as well as her father's catholic confession in his will), we do have Gilbert Shakespeare's signature and he wrote in a strong Italians signature, we know that the youngest Shakespeare brother, Edmund, traveled to London with William and was also an actor (actor's would not be worth their salt if they didn't know how to read their lines), Susanna, I have learned, has actually a stronger arguments that she could both read and write in both English and Latin. The strongest piece of evidence there would be the fact that the Queen of England stayed with Susana in 1643 at New Place for three days, where Susana was her host, upon leaving, Susana presented the queen with a gift, a book, inside the 1575 book, written in a Latin hand is the phrase: (your) Grace, from your friend, Susanna Hall. Proving both that, A, there were books in the Shakespeare home and probably proving that Susanna could write in Latin, and most definitely proving that she could read as the book was about the Queen's grandmother. An inference I would make, which we shall never know, is that the book may have belonged to her father, as the Queen was a huge supporter of the theater and arts (several of Shakespeare's plays were performed in front of King James, giving the queen the chance to have seen some of them first hand as a child). But in summation, to state that everyone's signature in Shakespeare's family just signed their name with a "x" or a single letter is not true. Only Judith did that. We have Shakespeare's grandfather's will, his mother's signature, his brother Gilbert's, three from Susanna, and even one from his granddaughter, Elizabeth. As to the Arden Shakespeare's reference to Sidney. In the Arden edition of the Sonnets, the editor explains that modern scholarship is leaning towards either William Herbert as either being Mr. W.H. or the Fair Youth. Hebert, the eventual Earl of Pembroke, was in fact Sir Philip Sidney's nephew and the son of Mary Sidney. In the Arden, it is explained the the "only begetter" is an allusion to Sidney's dedication page to his sister, Mary, in the Arcadia, and to Astrophil and Sidney sonnet 70. WH/Pembroke, and his brother Philip, are whom Folio 1 are dedicated to. There would be strong indication that the Pembroke bros are the patrons of the Folio 1 and are the one's who put together the funds to produce the Folio. If, likewise, William Herbert is one and the same as Mr. W.H. (the Mr also easily explained), then Hebert likewise could have put forth the funds to produce and publish the Sonnets in 1609. The fact that Ben Jonson was extremely close with the Pembroke/Sidney family and knew them personally, being only a commoner, and given the fact that the Pembrokes are the one's financing the Shakespeare's work into print, could be an indication that Shakespeare likewise knew the family and admired Sidney. If this is true, then Shakespeare has direct access to hand written copies. The fact that unpublished allusions to Sidney show up in some of Shakespeare's work would all the more point to this.

  • @BushTelegraph
    @BushTelegraph 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nunca Mas

  • @anthonybowers7571
    @anthonybowers7571 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great , thank you !

  • @SC-jh9qp
    @SC-jh9qp ปีที่แล้ว

    A powerful, inspiring and yet melancholy piece of poetic Dharma from one of my all-time favourite poets, read beautifully.

  • @kerribartlett2849
    @kerribartlett2849 ปีที่แล้ว

    masons are satanists, nd chuck is the head of them !

  • @vaga1963
    @vaga1963 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dearest Costas... My friend 😪

  • @Naxati
    @Naxati ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you so much, this helped me with my project a lot ))

  • @bastianconrad2550
    @bastianconrad2550 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Shakespeare authorship enigma - the shortest (plausible/ logic ) solution, in 1 minute th-cam.com/video/_htlSsFoocI/w-d-xo.html.

  • @daveallan9413
    @daveallan9413 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love it! Best to you both!

  • @cricketfanOK
    @cricketfanOK ปีที่แล้ว

    Well performed 👍

  • @antoniettadeluca5730
    @antoniettadeluca5730 ปีที่แล้ว

    A never ending suffering for this people

  • @CulinarySpy
    @CulinarySpy ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nicely done, with a passing tempest as backdrop!

  • @akhtaradil
    @akhtaradil ปีที่แล้ว

    Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it." Beautiful, most beautiful from the Bard. "But Shakespeare lives unrivalled still and unopposed by mind, the giant Parnassus hill the pride, the monarch of mankind." Thank you for your wonderful rendition!

  • @annaterf6927
    @annaterf6927 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always enjoyable

  • @solomon6082
    @solomon6082 ปีที่แล้ว

    Share this truth

  • @joycepatrice5334
    @joycepatrice5334 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very beautiful reading

  • @1man1bike1road
    @1man1bike1road ปีที่แล้ว

    100 percent i needed this

  • @Tunnelmental
    @Tunnelmental ปีที่แล้ว

    100% correct.

  • @mickthegreeksports
    @mickthegreeksports ปีที่แล้ว

    100 per cent agree

  • @kevanhughes
    @kevanhughes ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good. In my head I probably envisioned it in a John Cooper Clarke stylee. But impressive nonetheless.

  • @JonsBasicGaming
    @JonsBasicGaming ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes. Just yes.

  • @antoniettadeluca5730
    @antoniettadeluca5730 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Luke

  • @mickthegreeksports
    @mickthegreeksports 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant luke xx

  • @BarefootViking
    @BarefootViking 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done

  • @antoniettadeluca5730
    @antoniettadeluca5730 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great performance. I would listen to it over and over

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Read with much discernment ... bravo!

  • @mickthegreeksports
    @mickthegreeksports 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful

  • @pnr2736
    @pnr2736 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yoooo

  • @rstritmatter
    @rstritmatter 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice, Luke. Thanks.