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Sod's bloody law, been looking forward to AW and meeting you all. Come home from work to the news the car has broken down and is in the garage, no courtesy car available!Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Good luck to you all and enjoy:cool:
Don't like this new format btw:confused:
That has all the makings of becoming a real classic fell running verse OnOff - really excellent, and the cadence is just the bizz - very well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneOffPoet
Hes, again you've poetically captured the cyclic tragedy and triumph of life in you two haiku so I'm not sure if I should sniffle or punch-the-air - I'll do both. Hope you're now back on the right track.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Cheers DT. I know you there are in spirit. I'll bring you back a haiku or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Wild Geese
Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Good luck to all in the AW tomorrow looking forward to seeing you all very soon! and for those of you else where have fun!
Oh no...that's gutting. I'm so sorry to hear that Merry. I bought you some choccie cake too (didn't get time to make my own). Hope to see you at another race soon. I'd better get to bed as I was supposed to be camping up in the lakes but work got in the way....very early start tomorrow to get to AW in time!Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
Thanks Mossy and also Alf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
I'm not liking this new forum format much.:-(
Orion watches
inky owl glide silently
fox and vixen cross
Good luck to all who venture out to the Anni Waltz.
Sad I can't join you.
Hope you have a great day :)
this is lovely stef....just getting ready fo drive across to lakes, a shame not to see you there but another time soon hopefully....Quote:
Originally Posted by Stef F
freckle wonders why
a butterfly the size of an elephant
luks in her tummy!
ah well as all good hell raisers note...."bring ot on!!!!"
Very nice Stef. I like it a lot!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stef F
Just want to say how lovely it was to meet so many forumites at the AW today and also some of the fell poets! Cor blimey, it was a tough race. My knee did not like the descents and I am now going to have a very large right quad from all the hopping I was doing downhill. An interesting look I think.
the anni waltz race
blooming hard but lovely views
liked the tea and cakes
that has to be my finest haiku I reckon...;)
I met more forumites than I've ever met at all my races combined. It was good to put some faces to avatars!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
A fantastic day in the fells with great weather, a fine race, and some good company. Great to see you all.
Good to see some of you forumites out there today.
Harry H ran a blinder!
Al F had a good one too and Em, Hes, Baggins and Mudlugger were looking strong as they came through Dale Head.
A cracking day and a joy to be out on the fells.:):):)
I'm glad you got round alright. I know the knee was a worry, but you finished in a good time. It certainly hasn't deminished your haikuing ability ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Then again, I can't even count syllables after a couple of glasses of this wine.
Oh dear i blacked out and woke up being sick and got took back to hq felt dizzy for about 1/2 hr then fine. I feel a bit foolish.
Oh that doesn't sound too good :( Was that before or after the finish? Did you get round? Make sure you sip water regularly if you've become dehydrated.
Pork chops sizzling
seagulls soar ever hopeful
bbq delights
Stef F gets fatter
whilst fell poets work the waltz
anniversary
As long as you are ok, that is the main thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herakles
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Originally Posted by Herakles
Hi Herakles I hope you are OK now that sounds nasty, no need to feel foolish the main thing is that you are OK....anyhow another tip top athletic performance from myself, was doing OK (albeit from the back of the pack) until after the final check point I managed to get totally lost ( yes, on such a clear day on race where apparently nobody gets lost!!!!) and it took me an age to get back!...Ah well, more time in macca hills for me polishing up on my non existent navigational techniques I think before I attempt an unmarked route again!...but hey ho can't expect to be joss naylor overnight can I? ....anyhoo, it was fab to meet so many forumites and it would be good to plan another race get together later in the season after the armitage gig I think...lets ponder!
Golden Jaguar
Shanghai buffet restaurant
hot food, cold beer
:D
Nice :)
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Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Eat as much as you like, with food from all over Asia, help yourself to Budweiser and Hagen Daas ice-cream too. Happy days! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Stef F
a few memories of yesterday's anniversary waltz...hope you can access them OK
http://www.facebook.com/claire.walto...1&id=588177686
are these your photo's? Not on facebook so can't access them :( ..... glad you had a good run albeit extended! sent you a PM but it's hard to tell on this new look forum :(Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
I'll try and download them on here...wait a min....
Sheep in Fog
Slyvia Plath
The hills step off into whiteness.
People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
The train leaves a line of breath.
O slow
Horse the colour of rust,
Hooves, dolorous bells -
All morning the
Morning has been blackening,
A flower left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.
They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark water.
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Originally Posted by freckle
Hi Freckle, firstly, very well done all Poets who had a bash at the Anniv. Waltz. And HHH - WOW.
This is one of our Sylvia's I've over-looked, how did I manage that, so huge thanks for the discovery.
So for tonight can I offer:
Mean Time
The clocks slid back an hour
and stole light from my life
as I walked through the wrong part of town,
mourning our love.
And, of course, unmendable rain
fell to the bleak streets
where I felt my heart gnaw
at all our mistakes.
If the darkening sky could lift
more than one hour from this day
there are words I would never have said
or have heard you say.
But we will be dead, as you know,
beyond all light.
These are the shortened days
and the endless nights.
Carol Ann Duffy
I love this Mossy, I especially like the last two lines, such a good observation of how it feels to be mourning the loss of a love, thank you for postingQuote:
Originally Posted by Mossdog
Looks like the Fell Poets had a good outing at the Anni Waltz, great stuff, good pics from freckle, hope Herakles is ok (never let anyone tell you different Matt, your a star, keep going mate) sad that i couldn't get there, but happy you all had a great weekend;)
Cheers Merry.
Nice mugshot(s):)Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Oooooooo you are a card!Quote:
Originally Posted by fellgazelle
For little Jo Jo who is four today...
The Light Gatherer
Carol Ann Duffy
When you were small, your cupped palms
each held a candlesworth under the skin,
enough light to begin,
and as you grew
light gathered in you, two clear raindrops
in your eyes,
warm pearls, shy,
in the lobes of your eyes, even always
the light of a smile after your tears.
Your kissed feet glowed in my one hand,
or I'd enter a room to see the corner you played in
lit like a stage set,
the crown of your bowed head spotlit.
When language came, it glittered like a river,
silver, clever with fish,
and you slept
with the whole moon held in your arms for a night light
where I knelt watching.
Light gatherer. You fell from a star
into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
mirrored in you,
and now you shine like a snowgirl,
a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
you squeal at and fly in,
like a jewelled cave,
turqouise and diamond and gold, opening out
at the end of a tunnel of years.
Great photos freckle. Some familiar faces there. Glad you're okay Herakles! Happy birthday Jo Jo :)
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Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Hi DT, nice to hear from you...any suggestions for another FPS get together which this time you and the lovely Stef might be able to attend? ...think on
Lovely poem, Happy Fourth Jo Jo:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Safe journey back Andy;-) That's a wink cos these smilies are (delete expletive) not reet good!
I've already started thinking about it :) Looks like you guys had a great time.Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle