Stork of Jerez

[BuckyKat]

Hi, I'd love to find a copy of this poem by Laurie Lee but it seems its out print...any ideas or web links gratefully received...thanks :o)

[FGS51]

It's available on CD ..'Edge of Day: A Seasonal Anthology in Words and Music' from Amazon uk

Link....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edge-Day-Seasonal-Anth ology-Music/dp/tracks/B0000244EE/ref=dp_tracks _all_1/202-3453647-1811014?ie=UTF8#disc_1

[BuckyKat]

I've been looking for ages, you must be a proper sherlock holmes....thanks!

[FGS51]

You're welcome! :-)

No, no Sherlock Holmes but a 'Nethead (Ok, I admit I love literature as well :-) ) - I just put it into Google. Possibly with further searching you may find a 'paper' version.

E Bay would be worth trawling though as well if you want to take it further.

[BuckyKat]

you must have a magic touch then....CD is ordered, if it doesn't arrive I'll try ebay....thanks again!

[BBWCHATT]

I couldn't find the one you wanted - but found 6 of his others. I will put the link at the end of one of them.

Home From Abroad
(by Laurie Lee)

Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways,
My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant,
I set my face into a filial smile
To greet the pale, domestic kiss of Kent.

But shall I never learn? That gawky girl,
Recalled so primly in my foreign thoughts,
Becomes again the green-haired queen of love
Whose wanton form dilates as it delights.

Her rolling tidal landscape floods the eye
And drowns Chianti in a dusky stream;
he flower-flecked grasses swim with simple horses,
The hedges choke with roses fat as cream.

So do I breathe the hayblown airs of home,
And watch the sea-green elms drip birds and shadows,
And as the twilight nets the plunging sun
My heart's keel slides to rest among the meadows.

http://www.poems-and-poetry.com/laurie-lee/ind ex.html

[BuckyKat]

Sorry its taken a while to reply, thanks for the link...I love his poems, its an england I've never seen :o)