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14-11-2009, 12:44 AM
freckle

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Originally Posted by Hes

Ha ha ha...reckon he's down the pub getting his Inov8s dried off in front a roaring log fire with a pint of real ale in his hand.

quick if we hurry we can join him!!!!!!!!!!!!!
14-11-2009, 12:44 AM
Harry H Howgill

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Hes

Ohhh yes!!!! I feel like I have been totally spoilt tonight. Such wonderful poetry, music and it has been lovely sharing things with you all (I hope that doesn't sound too cheesy).

You wanted violins earlier on tonight, well here you go. A fine one to finish with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_8Ge...eature=related
14-11-2009, 12:47 AM
stevefoster

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Originally Posted by freckle

why good evening merry!

i am scared easily and can't watch!!!!!!!!!! what a full time professional wuss! hows the man flu? :D hope you are feeling better...

How do freckle, manflu feels better after a bath, curry and Strongbow thanks;)
14-11-2009, 12:49 AM
mr brightside

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

How do freckle, manflu feels better after a bath, curry and Strongbow thanks;)

Echinacea, i promise ;)
14-11-2009, 12:49 AM
freckle

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

How do freckle, manflu feels better after a bath, curry and Strongbow thanks;)

he he thats funny i felt rubbish b4 and took similar action, one chicken tikka dansak and several snecklifter's later and i'm feeling reet better :)
14-11-2009, 12:52 AM
stevefoster

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Originally Posted by mr brightside

Echinacea, i promise ;)

Sister gave me some once in liquid form, bloody orrible:eek:
14-11-2009, 12:53 AM
stevefoster

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by freckle

he he thats funny i felt rubbish b4 and took similar action, one chicken tikka dansak and several snecklifter's later and i'm feeling reet better :)

Ah but you ain't had manflu marra:p
Glad your feeling better though:cool:
14-11-2009, 12:54 AM
Hes

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

Sister gave me some once in liquid form, bloody orrible:eek:

extremely effective though. I haven't had a cold for ages thanks to echinacea although I have a horrid cough now but whisky is helping that.
14-11-2009, 12:55 AM
Harry H Howgill

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Night all.
14-11-2009, 12:56 AM
Hes

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

You wanted violins earlier on tonight, well here you go. A fine one to finish with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_8Ge...eature=related

Indeed...and perfect with this single malt that I'm necking to celebrate finishing my drawing of newts (it's a commission and they are ten times lifesize and it is blooming hard not to make them look like dinosaurs). Just got to make the plates now.
14-11-2009, 12:59 AM
stevefoster

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

Night all.

Night Harry, have a good weekend;)
14-11-2009, 01:01 AM
Harry H Howgill

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Hes

Indeed...and perfect with this single malt that I'm necking to celebrate finishing my drawing of newts (it's a commission and they are ten times lifesize and it is blooming hard not to make them look like dinosaurs). Just got to make the plates now.

I'm going to have nightmares about dinosoar newts now :eek::D

I know more about newts than you might imagine. I've even got a licence to handle them! Next stop lion taming.
14-11-2009, 01:02 AM
Harry H Howgill

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

Night Harry, have a good weekend;)

Cheers buddy; and you.
14-11-2009, 01:02 AM
Nathaniel Lee

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Yes indeed. Newtus tyrannicus.
14-11-2009, 01:03 AM
freckle

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

Night all.

goodnight HHH......

A slumber did my spirit seal
William Wordsworth

A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled sound in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
14-11-2009, 01:05 AM
emmilou

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Hes

Indeed...and perfect with this single malt that I'm necking to celebrate finishing my drawing of newts (it's a commission and they are ten times lifesize and it is blooming hard not to make them look like dinosaurs). Just got to make the plates now.

forgive me for asking but who wants pictures of giant newts :confused::eek:
14-11-2009, 01:05 AM
freckle

Re: Today's poet

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hes

Indeed...and perfect with this single malt that I'm necking to celebrate finishing my drawing of newts (it's a commission and they are ten times lifesize and it is blooming hard not to make them look like dinosaurs). Just got to make the plates now.

that's so funny can just imagine you........i need to hire you to teach my little girls they would love it!:) (aspiring artists especially the six year old)
14-11-2009, 01:07 AM
Harry H Howgill

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Good night petal

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Originally Posted by freckle

goodnight HHH......

A slumber did my spirit seal
William Wordsworth

A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled sound in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
14-11-2009, 01:10 AM
Hes

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by emmilou

forgive me for asking but who wants pictures of giant newts :confused::eek:

Good question....a guy who lives by a large pond and has a fireplace with a large space above it that is waiting for one of my prints...it is not my best ever commission but will pay for half my flights to India so I better stop procrastinating. I did a panel of vegetables 8 foot long recently...which is why I tend to just sell my own work and not do commissions.
14-11-2009, 01:11 AM
Hes

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

I'm going to have nightmares about dinosoar newts now :eek::D

I know more about newts than you might imagine. I've even got a licence to handle them! Next stop lion taming.

Interesting...how did that happen? My mum has one but she is a consultant ecologist. These are great crested too.
14-11-2009, 01:12 AM
Hes

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

Night all.

Night HHH, sweet dreams (sorry if they are about the newts).
14-11-2009, 01:13 AM
emmilou

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Hes

Good question....a guy who lives by a large pond and has a fireplace with a large space above it that is waiting for one of my prints...it is not my best ever commission but will pay for half my flights to India so I better stop procrastinating. I did a panel of vegetables 8 foot long recently...which is why I tend to just sell my own work and not do commissions.

Completley off topic clearly but what medium? A commission is a commission I guess but having a family of artists (and a house full of paintings!!) I know exactly where you are coming from
14-11-2009, 01:14 AM
Harry H Howgill

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Originally Posted by Hes

Interesting...how did that happen? My mum has one but she is a consultant ecologist. These are great crested too.

I manage quite a bit of land as part of the job and we've got hundreds of the little great crested devils. Rare? Not round our way!

We don't have 8-foot vegetables in this part of the county though - but maybe they do Sellafield way! :)
14-11-2009, 01:16 AM
Hes

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Originally Posted by freckle

that's so funny can just imagine you........i need to hire you to teach my little girls they would love it!:) (aspiring artists especially the six year old)

Anytime...I have taught kids from age 7 to adults. In the words of Nina age 8 1/2 'printing is actually better than eating'.
14-11-2009, 01:19 AM
Harry H Howgill

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Hes

Night HHH, sweet dreams (sorry if they are about the newts).

:D night night
14-11-2009, 01:21 AM
freckle

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Hes

Anytime...I have taught kids from age 7 to adults. In the words of Nina age 8 1/2 'printing is actually better than eating'.

i'll keep you to that hes thank you!!!!

in the spirit of "alluring, superlative solitude" i found this by yeats, sounds like the kind of place i'd like to go......

Isle of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and
wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon
a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by
the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the
pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
14-11-2009, 01:21 AM
Hes

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by emmilou

Completley off topic clearly but what medium? A commission is a commission I guess but having a family of artists (and a house full of paintings!!) I know exactly where you are coming from

Collagraph and solarplate prints. The newts will be a collagraph. I'm a printmaker mainly although the vegetables were in pastels.

I found this today and liked it although I think November has a lot going for it.

No!

No sun--no moon!
No morn--no noon!
No dawn--no dusk--no proper time of day--
No sky--no earthly view--
No distance looking blue--
No road--no street--no "t'other side this way"--
No end to any Row--
No indications where the Crescents go--
No top to any steeple--
No recognitions of familiar people--
No courtesies for showing 'em--
No knowing 'em!
No traveling at all--no locomotion--
No inkling of the way--no notion--
"No go" by land or ocean--
No mail--no post--
No news from any foreign coast--
No Park, no Ring, no afternoon gentility--
No company--no nobility--
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member--
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds--
November!

Thomas Hood
14-11-2009, 01:35 AM
Old Whippet

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Hes

Old Whippet...you never cease to amaze me. Can I have a root around in your attic? If you had written this, I'd be so impressed as it is pretty much perfect in rhyme and rhythm but as Plath did it, I'd expect nothing less. ;)

Hes - your serendipitous Auden discovery was a briLLiant response you have a simiLarly remarkabLe treasure trove. wouLd have enjoyed a bit of to_ing and fro_ing on this, but i buggered off to the hiLLs for many gLorious hours on what has been a very induLgent day.. There's a poem or two in it.
Came back to see that chiLd no 3 has spiLt juice on the keyboard. particularLy affecting the Letter L.
14-11-2009, 01:43 AM
freckle

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Originally Posted by Old Whippet

Hes - your serendipitous Auden discovery was a briLLiant response you have a simiLarly remarkabLe treasure trove. wouLd have enjoyed a bit of to_ing and fro_ing on this, but i buggered off to the hiLLs for many gLorious hours on what has been a very induLgent day.. There's a poem or two in it.
Came back to see that chiLd no 3 has spiLt juice on the keyboard. particularLy affecting the Letter L.

there was me thinking it was some innovative form of prose!!!!!! welcome back OW, look forward to new offerings :)....i wonder who and what will be the 1,000 th post.....not that i am a nerd you understand :D
14-11-2009, 01:45 AM
Hes

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Originally Posted by Old Whippet

Hes - your serendipitous Auden discovery was a briLLiant response you have a simiLarly remarkabLe treasure trove. wouLd have enjoyed a bit of to_ing and fro_ing on this, but i buggered off to the hiLLs for many gLorious hours on what has been a very induLgent day.. There's a poem or two in it.
Came back to see that chiLd no 3 has spiLt juice on the keyboard. particularLy affecting the Letter L.

I am gLad that you had a good day out (I'm a bit envious)..we were specuLating as to your whereabouts. I reaLLy Like the styLe of your Latest post and think that chiLd number 3 has Lent it a certain fLair. I'm aLso pleased that you enojoyed my newLy discovered Auden. I wiLL spend some time searching my pantry for Lost Limericks by other poets and get back to you asap. Looking forward to your poems from today.
14-11-2009, 01:58 AM
Old Whippet

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Originally Posted by freckle

there was me thinking it was some innovative form of prose!!!!!! welcome back OW, look forward to new offerings :)....i wonder who and what will be the 1,000 th post.....not that i am a nerd you understand :D

I think post number 1000 shouLd beLong to freckLe as instigator, with HHH as feLL poet Laureate as a possibLe aLternative.

...and funniLy enough, I did find a Sassoon originaL in the Northern marshes. wiLL post it tomorrow.
14-11-2009, 02:01 AM
freckle

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Old Whippet

I think post number 1000 shouLd beLong to freckLe as instigator, with HHH as feLL poet Laureate as a possibLe aLternative.

...and funniLy enough, I did find a Sassoon originaL in the Northern marshes. wiLL post it tomorrow.

i wait with baited breath!...tho think the 1000th poster shud be completely random in the spirit of this thread!
14-11-2009, 03:28 AM
XRunner

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by emmilou

forgive me for asking but who wants pictures of giant newts :confused::eek:

Newts like these (by M.C.Escher):

http://www.mindspring.com/~mc.escher...r/escher61.jpg
14-11-2009, 03:56 AM
freckle

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Mmmm...can't sleep so been browsing....

Nothing
by John Cooper Clarke

nothing isn’t anything
it’s tasteless and it’s flat
nothing if it’s anything
is even less than that
I’ve got that certain nothing
no one can do without
the Spanish call it nada
I call it nowt
I’d take the train but don’t care
to travel by myself
all the way from nowhere
to get nowhere else
nothing ever goes on
nothing never ends
say nothing to no one
it’s nothing to do with them
nothing going on and on
nothing wall to wall
it happens once and then it’s gone
leaving bugger all

http://viralverse.co.uk/
14-11-2009, 04:05 AM
freckle

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I just found this beautiful reading of a rossetti poem on you tube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PAABJ0hH84
14-11-2009, 04:57 AM
XRunner

Re: Today's poet
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Originally Posted by freckle

no doubt all of this will go down like a lead balloon, oh well...sod it! :) :D

Your lead balloon seems to be floating very high....

averaging 35 posts per day and is currrenly number 10 on the forum :)
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14-11-2009, 08:40 AM
Old Whippet

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by freckle

i wait with baited breath!...tho think the 1000th poster shud be completely random in the spirit of this thread!

sorry foLks. wasting a post to take it up to 1000! What a Liberty!
14-11-2009, 08:45 AM
Old Whippet

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This gLorious poetry thread
Is one of the most often read
It was started by Freckle
whos a Hyde and a Jeckyl
Its brought life to this oLd dog _ nuff said

This part of the forum has repLaced Languishing in front of crap t.v, had me counting syLLabLes whiLe running. Looking at things with a mind to finding how to describe and remember them and Lots more.

Thank you each and every contributor.

RoLl on the next 1000

New keyboard for me today.

unLess someone puts up a bit of Plath, in which case I might top meseLf!
14-11-2009, 08:51 AM
XRunner

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Originally Posted by Old Whippet

Freckle, Jeckyl , Plath

New keyboard for me today.!

Your keyboard is working perfectly for real names:D
14-11-2009, 09:35 AM
freckle

Re: Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Old Whippet

This gLorious poetry thread
Is one of the most often read
It was started by Freckle
whos a Hyde and a Jeckyl
Its brought life to this oLd dog _ nuff said

This part of the forum has repLaced Languishing in front of crap t.v, had me counting syLLabLes whiLe running. Looking at things with a mind to finding how to describe and remember them and Lots more.

Thank you each and every contributor.

RoLl on the next 1000

New keyboard for me today.

unLess someone puts up a bit of Plath, in which case I might top meseLf!

old whippett i loved the 1000th post, i love the way we all discuss our moods with reference to poets now, not that we are obsessed or anything like!!!!!, hope you can get your Lap top sorted and that you have more of a "kenneth ormiston (see post 10)" than a "plath" day !!!!

thanx x runner for your list, and to think it only started on 18th oct!

looking forward to more great stuff on here today!

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