Today's poet

****ing love it Mossy!!

I really like the forthrightness and truth of the poem and it made me laugh as I was aware on Sunday's fell race that I may have offended the guy behind me's sensibilities when I exclaimed **** on a near twisted ankle. I think there is an earthiness about the word that no alternative can match and said in the height of passion or as a request...well, those last two verses say it all! :)

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Originally Posted by Mossdog

There are some weird and wonderfully obscure poetry sites out there on the high seas of the internet, and while surfing my eye was caught by one that seems to be particularly...er...,irreverent, as it's title suggests it's devoted to the F-word. Intrigued, but also resigned to the likelihood of hasty disappointment at a possibly neanderthal and banal anthology, I ventured in closer......And actually I found it's first offering quite uplifting and thought provoking. Anyway, see what you think, (sadly this forum's automated 'taste-police' has somewhat ****ed with the text, but let me assure you it isn't called the four asterisks !)
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To all you Fell poets.... Radio 4 this saturday coming 6.05am......Ramblings, Stuart Maconie walks with poet Simon Armitage. I think the prog is repeated sometime during the week, for those of you that are'nt early birds.

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Originally Posted by Masham Man

To all you Fell poets.... Radio 4 this saturday coming 6.05am......Ramblings, Stuart Maconie walks with poet Simon Armitage. I think the prog is repeated sometime during the week, for those of you that are'nt early birds.

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Thanks MM and theres also Roger McGough as well http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qp7q

Saw a couple of Hares chasing each other on the the way home from work tonight, so here is my first offering to .........today's poet

In the black furrow of a field
I saw an old witch-hare this night;
And she cocked a lissome ear,
And she eyed the moon so bright,
And nibbled of the green;
And I whispered 'Whsst! witch-hare,'
Away like a ghostie o'er the field
She fled, and left the moonlight there.

Walter de la Mare

Masham, North Yorkshire
home to real ale breweries
and lovers of hares

My first haikhu for a very long time. I've noticed a few hares whilst out and about the last few days; what fabulous creatures! :cool:

Emm we just love the BEER. Did you know every house in Masham has beer piped straight to the cold tap.

Hic

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Originally Posted by Masham Man

Emm we just love the BEER. Did you know every house in Masham has beer piped straight to the cold tap.

Hic

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Ha ha.....on me way!!!!

Liked the poem too.....appealed to me and simple enough for me to understand.

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Originally Posted by Masham Man

Emm we just love the BEER. Did you know every house in Masham has beer piped straight to the cold tap.

Hic

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My best friends took me on a Black Sheep brewery tour for my birthday five or six years ago. We had a fabulous day in the sunshine as it coincided with the folk(?) festival. We were out for 11hours iirc. A wonderful do it was

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Originally Posted by Hes

****ing love it Mossy!!

I really like the forthrightness and truth of the poem and it made me laugh as I was aware on Sunday's fell race that I may have offended the guy behind me's sensibilities when I exclaimed **** on a near twisted ankle. I think there is an earthiness about the word that no alternative can match and said in the height of passion or as a request...well, those last two verses say it all! :)

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Sickening language. Those were MY sensibilities!! No wonder there are some who use ipods during races (see another thread). The 'Ban Everything' Brigade have not taken into account these devices as sensibility protectors.

Running through the Commondale muck....(you can see where this is going!)
A fell poet ran out of luck
When twisting an ankle
With a pain that did rankle
Cried out to the world the word 'Ouch'


or something to that effect.

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

My best friends took me on a Black Sheep brewery tour for my birthday five or six years ago. We had a fabulous day in the sunshine as it coincided with the folk(?) festival. We were out for 11hours iirc. A wonderful do it was

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We did the tour while at the Steam Rally many many years back....I then drove a vintage tractor on a parade through the village, great memories.