This was the first ever email sent out two years ago as The Alipore Post. For whatever it's worth:
Hello and welcome to The Alipore Post.
To be honest, I'm not quite sure what I plan to do with this project that I've undertaken. But I have a feeling it's going to be a rather fascinating adventure, one that I'm hoping I will never want to stop.
I'm genuinely grateful to each of you for signing up and I hope you enjoy what I have to share. :)
I thought it only fair that the first poem I share happens to be the one I remember most clearly from my childhood:
From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And here is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart runaway in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill, and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!
More art by Beppe Giacobbe here.
Recommended listening: My Kind of Woman - Mac Demarco
Link of the day: 25 GIF artists you should know