Alice Oswald's always been a favourite for me Hes - thanks for those excerpts.
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Alice Oswald's always been a favourite for me Hes - thanks for those excerpts.
Spent the morning atop Wildboar Fell, Swarth fell and Baugh fell giving the new footwear a bash.....simply glorious weather again, sunshine and a gentle cooling breeze, and as usual I was able to feast on the entire 'secret' landscape uninterrupted - heavenly.
Bare Grip's premier
skylarking on Wildboar fell
soul to sole smiling
Your Name
Stirring, I turn, letting your name
tumble from still sleep-bound lips onto my pillow
where it lays, warming today's first thoughts
it's power lightens, fades the stalking loss of night
sears the fears of absence, the years of silence
- this is love, your name, your image
lays close
as real as landscape,
and that smile, those blue eyes of acceptance
I'v woken into my dream,
the unspoken secret of a life time's heartbeats
a 'Lovely Day' made true,
your name.
Goodness Freckle - what a stunning poem, and the link to the analysis simply added to my appreciation. Profoundly philosophical, yet in it's subject matter central to the very inescapable exigencies of real life that most of us will have to face in one way or the other.
Now that's a very good poem Mossy http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...ebit/Cool2.gif Well done!
A beautiful poem (originally posted by freckle but well worth another posting) Douglas Dunn wrote about his dead wife and is very reminiscent of Thomas Hardy's poems about his dead wife (see freckle's other post http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showt...all#post335785 )
Land Love
We stood here in the coupledom of us.
I showed her this – a pool of leaping trout,
Split-second saints drawn in a rippled nimbus.
We heard the night-boys in the fir trees shout.
Dusk was an insect-hovered still water,
The calling of lost children, stars coming out.
With all the feelings of a widower
Who does not live there now, I dream my place.
I go by the soft paths, alone with her.
Dusk is a listening, a whispered grace
Voiced on a bank, a time that is all ears
For the snapped twig, the strange wind on your face.
She waits at the door of the hemisphere
In her harvest dress, in the remote
Local August that is everywhere and here.
What rustles in the leaves, if it is not
What I asked for, an opening of doors
To a half-heard religious anecdote?
Monogamous swans on the darkened mirrors
Picture the private grace of man and wife
In its white poise, its sleepy portraitures.
Night is its Dog Star, its eyelet of grief
A high, lit echo of the starry sheaves.
A puff of hedge-dust loosens in the leaves.
Such love that lingers on the fields of life!
DOUGLAS DUNN
Alf...that is a really moving choice. Thanks for posting it.