If

“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,….”
excerpt from ‘If’- Rudyard Kipling

Photo at top of page: Sculpture of Rudyard Kipling, by Steve Andrews, chainsaw sculptor, at Kipling’s Estate, Batemans, East Sussex, now a National Trust property.
Yvette over at the Priorhouse Blog provided the stimulus for this sharing of my favourite poem! (Day 3 of 3)

Shangri-La

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
   Down to a sunless sea….”
excerpt from Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yvette over at the Priorhouse Blog provided the stimulus for this effort! (Day 2 of 3)

The Sea

The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

from The Sea – Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall)

Yvette over at the Priorhouse Blog provided the stimulus for this outburst! (Day 1 of 3).