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  • PPB: All in June / W.H. Davies

    From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 11 09:50:26 2022
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    Today's poem at Penny's Poetry Blog:
    All in June, by W.H. Davies
    [...]
    Today the fields are rich in grass,
    And buttercups in thousands grow;
    I'll show the world where I have been —
    With gold-dust seen on either shoe.
    [...]
    https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/06/all-in-june-wh-davies.html

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  • From W.Dockery@21:1/5 to George J. Dance on Sat Jun 11 16:01:37 2022
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    George J. Dance wrote:

    Today's poem at Penny's Poetry Blog:
    All in June, by W.H. Davies
    [...]
    Today the fields are rich in grass,
    And buttercups in thousands grow;
    I'll show the world where I have been —
    With gold-dust seen on either shoe.
    [...]
    https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/06/all-in-june-wh-davies.html


    Hello there George, I think we discussed this before, W.H. Davies is possibly kin to Ray and Dave Davies?

    I'll need to check the archives for what we finally decided, but I remember that much.

    🙂

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  • From W.Dockery@21:1/5 to George J. Dance on Sat Jun 11 19:23:12 2022
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    Here's what I was thinking of, it was Rick Davies from Supertramp that was discussed as a possible connection with W.H. Davies:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/KUpXmPiPjBo/m/QywSLuoLAwAJ


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    On Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 3:25:46 AM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:
    On Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 4:47:09 AM UTC-4, Bodeen wrote:
    On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 8:21:00 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:
    I had this lady on SND months ago, but that was before we moved to facebook, so I'm giving her another go.

    Mae Moore, Bohemia
    (Mae Moore)

    I missed the bus, yeah, I did it again;
    That's when I first met the Parisian
    Poet-angel; it was his idea
    I take my place in Bohemia.
    I've got a view nobody's seen.
    I read Burroughs but I keep it clean.
    I go places inside my head
    With an eye on tomorrow to keep my soul fed.
    [...]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiKB9UGYPrQ

    Not sure how related they were to Harry Kemp but Supertramp was one of his titles as well....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaxAZYQB44o

    Kemp used the word "supertramp" for Jesus. He may have come up with the word independently, or he may have got it from reading poet W.H. Davies, who used it for himself in his 1908 /Autobiography of a Super-Tramp/. Rick Davies of Supertramp (I don't
    know if he's a relation) got the group name from W.H. Davies' autobiography.

    Oh okay here it is about Davies...…...

    Yes. The only thing I have to add to that is: I found a page about Rick Davies and Supertramp on the website of Swindon, England (his birthplace). They repeat the above story, but add that W.H. Davies was no relation.
    http://www.swindonweb.com/index.asp?m=8&s=9&ss=1098&t=Rick+Davies

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