[QUOTE=Stef F;402347]Awe come on Stef, your training hard and having a go, worthy of some praise in my book:)
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this is one of my all time fave mossy...you can listen to it being read by the author here ....
http://www.lemnsissay.com/recordings/index.htm
Hints of Phil Spectre in that particular one. Love the lyrics from another song from the same album:
Don't go home with you're hard on
It will only drive you insane
You can't shake it or break in with your Mowtown
You can't melt it down in the rain
How the hell do you write lines like that!!
Have read all his published poetry in the past but must admit to prefering his poetry within his music lyrics.
Not a poem as such, but the words of David Goggins, US Navy Seal, Ultramarathon Runner, Cyclist and a bloke who just keeps pushing his limits, Inspiring.
CAN'T SLEEP
Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can not do something. All my life I heard that I couldn't do something. My mom was working 2 jobs and going to college. I was an African American kid in an all white school. They tried to say that I couldn't....but I did. I wanted to be a Navy SEAL. They said I couldn't because I was too big and couldn't hardly swim....but I did. They said I couldn't go to Ranger School because my schedule as a SEAL wouldn't allow it....but I did. They said that I couldn't run 100 miles because I had never ran a marathon...but I did. They said I could never complete the Ultraman because I had never done a triathlon...but I did. Now they say I can't do RAAM because it's too soon. It's not safe....but....
Life is not always going to be this care free happy place that we would like it to be. What life throws at you is a lot of negativity. It's what you do with that negativity that makes you a stronger human being. When you hear the words, no, you can't, impossible, never...what do you think to yourself? Do you cower inside and run from the challenge. Or do you face it...head on...asking for more?
Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.
Another botanical offering - which I liked :
Chicory
Show me a piece of land that God forgot-
a strip between an unused sidewalk, say,
and a bulldozed lot, rich in broken glass-
and there, July on, will be chicory,
its leggy hollow stems staggering skyward,
its leaves rough-hairy and lanceolate,
like pointed shoes too cheap for elves to wear,
its button-blooms the tenderest mauve-blue.
How good of it to risk the roadside fumes,
the oil-soaked heat reflected from asphalt,
and wretched earth dun-colored like cement,
too packed for any other seed to probe.
It sends a deep taproot (delicious, boiled),
is relished by all livestock, lends its leaves
to salads and cooked greens, but will not thrive
in cultivated soil: it must be free.
John Updike (2001)
April Fool
The first of April, some do say,
Is set apart for All Fools' Day.
But why the people call it so,
Nor I, nor they themselves do know.
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.
Poor Robin's Almanac (1790)
The metronomic
chiff chaffs join Lands Wood chorus
last to leave, first back
Lovely OW!