cup of China tea
scalding hot water on leaves
revives every time
A 'quickie' composed while the kettle was boiling :)
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cup of China tea
scalding hot water on leaves
revives every time
A 'quickie' composed while the kettle was boiling :)
Merci monsieurQuote:
Originally Posted by Boy Wonder
I have found the lyrics for another song I posted earlier:
The Inverary Harriers
It could equally apply to the XOTF thread:D
I'm impressed, both at the speed and quality of your delivery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
My last 10-word haiku took me a whole ten miles! :eek:
That is fantastic. You did well to find that.
It had me in stitches, especially verse 5 for some reason.
Something to aspire to.
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Originally Posted by XRunner
A mile per word isn't bad Harry :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
Not sure whether that makes me a fast runner or a slow thinker. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Harry H Howgill
does he run quick or think slow
the former I'm sure
:)
Good evening all, I am really enjoying the haiku wonderful stuff...tonight i fear I am too tired to write any verse at all so am just going to sit back and delight in all of your good stuff! by the way DT i love your (new?) signature, find it uplifting every time i see it!.....Ok off to pick out some poetry to post...on the way home feeling in need of nourishment i purchased two new poetry books a margaret atwood collection and "poems for life" penguin collection. THe latter has got some lovely birth poems HHH wish I had found it earlier! at some juncture i will post....off to peruse, latersQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Busy Woman DreamsQuote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Tomorrow,
With a careless air,
I shall say,
I will be gone for the day!
I shall put on my blue gown,
And in leisured way
Go to town.
There, I shall stop
At the newly opened shop
Where they keep such lovely things,
And, in unhurried way
Choose from some intriguing place
A richly colored robe,
Or some fine old lace;
Then, I shall browse
In the bookstand nearby,
Selecting some new book...
Tomorrow, I shall put
All waiting tasks upon the shelf
And spend one easy, carefree day
With my own self.
- Katherine Edelman
The good thing about anthologies (i think) is you discover poets you may have never come across before...i liked this short and sweet one by Lemn Sissay
Love Poem
You remind me
define me
incline me.
If you died
I'd.
I also found something else nice by him which made me think past the cold weather to warmer times....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHqDYgMRiEc
hope you liked it as much as i did!:)
His love poem is class.Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
HHH you have outdone yourself here!....how utterly sweet of you, what a wonderful poem and one to print off and put on my wall at work i think so i can "escape" when i need to......THANK YOU :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
two women, six men, we run
past trees that dance in the wind
rhythmic feet strike the ground
our breath becomes one breath
my knotted stomach and silent day fades
a lone wolf back in the pack
not a haiku, not really anything much but anyway....
I can imagine you swanning round Waterstones in your finest blue gown tomorrow. I wish I could be there to see it!Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
on the contrary Hes I think this conjures a wonderful image! love the line "my knotted stomach and silent day fades" and "past trees that dance in the wind" in fact pretty much all of it i love...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
wish i had been there (although the blue gown may have got a bit hammered and i might have dropped a few poetry books!!!) ;)
A nice image.
I like the synchronicity when you've been running together for a while.
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Originally Posted by Hes
a birth poem from the master, can't believe i didn't find it at the time but better late than never!
from spiralling ecstatically this
e e cummings
from spiralling ecstatically this
proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night
blossoms a newborn babe: around him, eyes
-gifted with every keener appetite
than mere unmiracle can quite appease-
humbly in their imagined bodies kneel
(over time space doom dream while floats the whole
perhapsless mystery of paradise)
mind without soul may blast some universe
to might have been, and stop ten thousand stars
but not one heartbeat of this child; nor shall
even prevail a million questionings
against the silence of his mother’s smile
whose only secret all creation sings
Thank you both. You are very sweet. I really like both your latest posts. That little love poem is a brilliant. Freckle, you would have been the belle of the ball if you'd come running with you gown and poetry books...
That is lovely Freckle. Thanks for that.
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Originally Posted by freckle
more like a fairy elephant i am sure! ...but thanks for the optimism...if there is ever a fell poetic society bash perhaps i will donn such an outfit for a laff!...anyway, where is everyone else tonight? i was hoping to see some new and old faces around again! bed time soon for me i think :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Cinders, you shall go and complete 8 hill reps...Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YeuiuvaiJ6...Dress-4-sm.jpg
Ha ha! you are a card HHH!
Hes...i found the perfect outfit for you too...
Attachment 2595
but what will all of the rest of you wear i wonder?
For hill reps???
http://images.sportsshoes.com/produc...N455_400_1.jpg
obviously....
Dom
Their two's minds work more like this...
http://image3.examiner.com/images/bl...running(1).jpg
Ha ha ha...like it! Snow White is it? I am going to admit something that I may regret. I had to dress up as Alice in Wonderland for the Masham Arts Festival and help host a mad hatter's tea party for 60 under sixes. I was a big hit...mainly with the older gentlemen (including a vicar)...the little ones preferred the dormouse!Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
:D hee hee...that's more like it!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
They do look happy don't they?;)
Tut tut HHH i don't know what you mean!!!!! honestly!...is that DH Lawrence on that there hill?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
You should know the rules.... If there's no pictures it didn't happen...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
oh there's pictures! Start bidding....Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
I reused the costume for halloween and just added make-up to become Vampire Alice...there's pictures of that too!
I'll show you mine if you show me yours!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
that wasn't you and Dom in the picture then?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
Might be. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
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Originally Posted by Hes
I wasn't aware we'd ever met?? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
You obviously hadn't looked behind you!Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
you probably just don't recall his face....ha di ha ha!Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Right...I am just about to have a brandy...any chance someone can post some calming poetry I am all of a dither now...:eek: :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
The Poetry God
has golden hair,
wears a golden ring.
He carries a red valise
in which two pairs of shoes
walk the inner edge.
He likes things
The Poetry God says
Do you want to be here or not?
If you fear you are alone
a poem is a kind of love.
We lie down together
in a faded room.
We get on with the business
of filling the empty page.
Polly Clark
Ah Hes...you little angel...order is restored...for now at least :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hes