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!
Good luck to you all and enjoy:cool:
Don't like this new format btw:confused:
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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!
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....
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!!!!"
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...;)
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.:):):)
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
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
a few memories of yesterday's anniversary waltz...hope you can access them OK
http://www.facebook.com/claire.walto...1&id=588177686
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.
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
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.
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 :)