inversions in poetry

[abu nuwas]

I shall eat carrots while 'writing'. You do produce some revolting images -I suppose you are preparing to travel to places no-one visits for knife-and-fork reasons. Where ordering tea produces just that -cup of black tea, no saucer.

I admire people who make poems sound nice. To do that, they must tinker a little with their initial thoughts, to make it happen --inversion or no.


'A Mind's Journey to Diss



Dear Mary,
Yes, it will be bliss
To go with you by train to Diss,
Your walking shoes upon your feet;
We'll meet, my sweet, at Liverpool Street.
That levellers we may be reckoned
Perhaps we'd better travel second;
Or, lest reporters on us burst,
Perhaps we'd better travel first'

Betjeman