Category Archives: Poetry recitation

Times Sixty on Frosty Gyemyeongsan

Posted on February 12, 2007 by thormay

A poem of age and age­ing, ugli­ness and beau­ty, and the age­less peak of Gye­myeongsan loom­ing behind Chungju, in South Korea. I wrote it in 2006. You can see the words here.

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Extraordinary — a love poem

Posted on February 5, 2007 by thormay

This is one of my own poems. I wrote it in 1995. You can see the words here. Hope you like it.

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Tiger in the Night

Posted on January 29, 2007 by thormay

This is one of my own poems (for the rest see my main site, thormay.net ). “Tiger in the Night” tries to cap­ture some of Korea’s spir­it, ancient and mod­ern. There’s a lot to this place, for those who care … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Sea Fever by John Masefield

Posted on January 21, 2007 by thormay

This poem is ter­rif­ic for learn­ing the rhythm of Eng­lish (if you are an Eng­lish lan­guage learn­er). For those of us who have steered a boat under sail, it catch­es some­thing mag­i­cal. John Mase­field (1878–1967) was the British poet lau­re­ate … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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The Lights of Cobb & Co by Henry Lawson

Posted on January 16, 2007 by thormay

Recita­tion by Thor of a bal­lad poem by Australia’s best loved sto­ry­teller. The set­ting is west­ern New South Wales, Aus­tralia, in the late nine­teenth cen­tu­ry. You can see the words on this site . Paint­ing by Ivor Hele . play­er … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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