Very atmospheric that MG :cool: I ran my first race (very carefully!) in a month yesterday and by the sound of it we had the wind and the muddy puddles in common. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mountain Goatess
Printable View
Very atmospheric that MG :cool: I ran my first race (very carefully!) in a month yesterday and by the sound of it we had the wind and the muddy puddles in common. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mountain Goatess
Thats a good one freckle. I thought it was one of yours when I didn't see the name at the bottom. It certainly has the "freckle style" to it :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Accidentally stumbled on this when I was checking the correct name of a Kate Bush songtitle for the Chain thread :D
The Child in Me
She follows me about my House of Life
(This happy little ghost of my dead Youth!)
She has no part in Time's relentless strife
She keeps her old simplicity and truth --
And laughs at grim Mortality,
This deathless Child that stays with me --
(This happy little ghost of my dead Youth!)
My House of Life is weather-stained with years --
(O Child in Me, I wonder why you stay.)
Its windows are bedimmed with rain of tears,
The walls have lost their rose, its thatch is gray.
One after one its guests depart,
So dull a host is my old heart.
(O Child in Me, I wonder why you stay!)
For jealous Age, whose face I would forget,
Pulls the bright flowers you bring me from my hair
And powders it with snow; and yet -- and yet
I love your dancing feet and jocund air.
I have no taste for caps of lace
To tie about my faded face --
I love to wear your flowers in my hair.
O Child in Me, leave not my House of Clay
Until we pass together through the Door,
When lights are out, and Life has gone away
And we depart to come again no more.
We comrades who have travelled far
Will hail the Twilight and the Star,
And smiling, pass together through the Door!
May Riley Smith
Little auld Ken thought he wus fit,
Went for a recce but ran like sh1t,
Couldn't get gannin up the fust hill
and after alf an hour felt rather ill.
Under pressure with thumb on the map
Dunno why...but me nav'in was crap
Kept plugging away but to no avail
Route should've been an easy handrail
Turned left at High Raise to Kidsty Pike
Made up time could've been on me bike
Two minutes up and felt the best for days
Completely c0cked up, I'd been to Low Raise.
Toys out me pram....... for wot was worth
reality checked and brought back to earth
Teach me not to brag and think ahm clever
Must train more or Joss Naylor will happen...... never
NB
Ooo I like this!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nee Bother
Another good ome NB you are on a roll!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nee Bother
Mossy- such cynicism! .....though i do know what you mean, I can't stand the commercial side of valentines day and I would have thought if you were fond of someone it would be a good idea to demonstrate it all year round and not just on one day so that we can line the pockets of the card/flowers/pointless gifts industry!...that said, there is nothing wrong with using a few choice words to remind someone how you feel...
Variations on the Word Sleep
I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head.
and walk with you through that lucent
wavering forest of bluegreen leaves
with its watery sun & three moons
towards the cave where you must descend,
towards your worst fear
I would like to give you the silver
branch, the small white flower, the one
word that will protect you
from the grief at the center
of your dream, from the grief
at the center. I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in
I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.
Margaret Atwood
why thankyou alf..i am flattered !:-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
I like it Mossy! Blooming day...making us singlies feel inadequate. Thank goodness for good friends, that's what I think. :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
I can't keep up with all the great poems that have been posted on here recently and to start naming all the ones that I like will make this post sound like an awards acceptance speech so I'll just say, thank you to you all for posting such good verses and giving the rest of us great stuff to read. I've particularly enjoyed the original material.
I'd like to second that. I'm enjoying just reading everyone's excellent poems and choices, but when things quieten down I'll give something back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes