<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369396" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After 'To Joanna</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In his company Joanna laughed: <br>Clear she thought that he was daft<br>When he heard the mountains laughing<br>In his ravishment of mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the vicar who'd upbraided him<br>For carving in the rock<br>Upon whose meditation<br>The ravishment occurred, <br>Instead of laughing loudly<br>At his loftiness of word, <br>Smiled and looked astonished<br>Thinking, 'Jackass of a bird.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Realising that he'd lost him<br>The poet came to earth, <br>Told the vicar in plain language<br>Of Joanna's certain anguish<br>As she drew into his side<br>For fear of something that she heard<br>But to which could put no word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now she's gone back to the city, <br>I miss her laughter, that's the pity.<br>That's why 'JOANNA'S ROCK'<br>Is what he's chiseled, <br>This jackass of a bird.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wrote this in October-November 2011 mainly in my bed in Adelaide <br> after reading Wordsworth's <br>'To Joanna'. The thought about the jackass (kookaburra) I put into <br> the mind of the vicar comes from an<br>experience in which I was camping with a friend. Our tent blew in on us one<br>night and we couldn't be bothered getting out to re-erect it. Instead my friend<br>laughed hysterically all night. Next morning I overheard the man in the<br>nearby caravan muttering that if he'd had an axe he'd have killed that<br>laughing jackass last night.<br>My friend was like the poet, I was like Joanna, amused by rapture, and<br>the guy in the caravan was the vicar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Douglas+Scotney">Douglas Scotney</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369396" data-title="After 'To Joanna de Douglas Scotney" data-description="In his company Joanna laughed: Clear she thought that he was daft When he heard the mountains laughing In his ravishment of mind. Now the vicar who'd upbraided him For carving in the rock Upon whose meditation The ravishment occurred, Instead o..."></div> </div> </div>

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