George Dance wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>> >> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for New Year's Day:
>> >> At the New Year, by Kenneth Patchen
>> >> [...]
>> >> There is this high singing in the air
>> >> Forever this sorrowful human face in eternity’s window
>> >> And there are other bells that we would ring, Father
>> >> [...]
>> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/01/at-new-year-kenneth-patchen.html
>>
>> >> #pennyspoems
>> Like I said before the trolls arrived, thanks for posting this poem, George.
>> I haven't read any Patchen in years, probably since the 1970s when I was soaking in as much Beat related poetry as I could find, remembering now how good Kenneth Patchen was.
>> HTH and HAND.

> I can't remember reading any of Patchen's poetry previously. I plan to read more of his work this year, now that it's in the public domain here. I found this poem by pure coincidence, or perhaps it was synergy: I discovered it on the a webpage of New Year's poems the day after I'd discovered that it would be out of copyright here on New Year's Day.

> The subject seems the same as Roberts's poem that I ran on New Year's Eve -- a bell peals out 12 times at midnight, cutting through the quiet or drowning out the normal background noises, and getting the poet to start thinking about philosophical questions. The only reason I couldn't have used Patchen's poem on New Year's Eve, instead of Roberts's, is because back then Patchen's was still in copyright.

Great, hopefully more Kenneth Patchen poems will fit the topic.