I know, i can't wait to read this to my kids tonight, it will be my daughter's idea of heaven as her tooth is such a sweet one...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
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I know, i can't wait to read this to my kids tonight, it will be my daughter's idea of heaven as her tooth is such a sweet one...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Agreed OW. I know that i would certainly struggle to walk that far with most importantly that much elevation inside 24 hrs. It would good to have a run sometime on the course too.
Inspired by the vote thread a poem simply entitled:
Joss.
Each step agony with iron will he persevered,
Carved out of cumbrian rock,
A special humble man who is very much revered,
On the hill he tends his stock,
His dogs scouring the fells always by his side,
An extraordinary man whose spirit cannot be denied.
By Matt Harmston.
I sincerely hope so OW...will need my fell and poetry fix every so often and I hope to send the odd India inspired haiku in a DT style.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Whippet
I always do that...catch up on the day's postings and then reply before I've finished...thanks all of you for encouraging me to write from India, it will be an added incentive knowing you'll be here (I'll miss you!). Some lovely postings today...DT's haiku, Freckle's rhyme and Tri-Mind's honourings of his partner and Joss. It is great to have such diversity isn't it?
Sorry for being behind the times Hes. What part of india are you going to ?. And for how long ? . Is it related to work or pleasure ?. By the way tell me to stop being nosy if you want.
Hi Tri-mind, that's not nosy, it's nice that you are interested. I'm off for a month and am flying into Mumbai and out of Delhi. Not sure exactly where I'll go but have a few ideas. It is mainly a holiday but I'm an artist and am going with another artist friend of mine and we hope to visit some Indian art co-operatives and I'd like to liaise wth some printmakers...sort of a research trip! I'll probably make some work inspired by being there when I get back too. Have you been? I'm open to any reccommendations anyone may have. You could always pm me?Quote:
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this is brilliant tri mind, love it!Quote:
Originally Posted by tri-mind
I like this international poetry relay. A different forumite heading off every month to another part of the world, and reporting back in poetry. Who's next after Hes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
I've never had the pleasure of going to India, but the company I work for is now Indian-owned so there is a chance I'll get a trip out there some time.
Printmaker travels
Enthusiasm given
Inspiration returned
I can't claim to have written this; my only claims are to find it memorable and liking it.
Knowledge is power.
But power corrupts,
And corruption is crime,
And crime doesn’t pay.
So if you read that…
You’ll go broke!
I like that HHH. No crime for me then. Well other than with my fitness crimes against Fellrunning.
The only crime is not to go running when you get the chance. :)
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For Hes, off on her travels soon;
It took me a while to get it as I'm a bit slow this evening. John Hegley is one of my favourites...
I'm in India
feeling more secure
and less likely to get chinned 'ere
I made friends with a steam-train firemen
who asked how long I would stay in his country
'Two weeks,' I replied
'Very short?' he probed
'I'm a very busy man.' I joked.
'What is it, the you do?' he probed further.
'Poetry!' I announced.
'Aha!' he pounced,
'Now I understand you,
my brother does the same.
Yes, very hard work:
the feeding, the cleaning, loading all the eggs on to
the lorry.'
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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
I'll be in Shanghai in April and probably away somewhere before then :)
I've been to India two or three times for work but on the same Delhi, and then North to Paniput and Ludihana areas route
I know these business trips aren't often glamerous in the least (sorry, maybe yours are!) but I always enjoyed carrying a camera wherever I went. There are some happy memories looking back, now I've forgotten the constant wish to be back home soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
With all this talk of travelling, I've been going through my photos. These are the words from a street billboard sign found all over Burma. Posted by the government no less!
People’s Desire
Oppose those relying on external elements, acting as stooges, holding negative views.
Oppose those trying to jeopardise stability of the state and progress of the nation.
Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the state.
Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy.
Mine certainly aren't glamourous but you meet intersting people, have the chance to eat amazing food and generally come back with some happy memories :cool: I'm still working on a haiku about the congealed blood and 'vegetable jelly with a kind of cough medecine and honey' I had on Sunday ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
Sounds sadly familiar. I'm still ploughing my way through Wild Swans and that sounds just the kind of rhetoric Mao was using in the 50s and 60sQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
Sadly this wasn't quite so long ago, and they are probably there now still.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Sounds delightful. It sounds like their marketing department has got a little work to do. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Feeling peeky?
Need a boost?
You need a bowl of conjealed blood and vegetable jelly with a kind of cough medecine and honey!
Guarenteed to give your day the start it needs!
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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
The congealed blood was cut into chunks and I thought it was some kind of tofu :o I didn't finish it. Now the jelly was a different matter - it was fantastic! I had some little dumplings in gravy too, which were like golf ball sized Yorkshire pudding. This was Sunday brunch, eaten under a tree at a little roadside cafe before we went off to a temple on the mountainside :cool:
I'm glad it was cut into chunks. It makes it so much more palatable. :eek:
When I first visited Burma I had to travel 12 hours north on a coach to get where I was going. I still hadn't dared try the local cuisine when we stopped for a break so I stopped on the bus. I watched everyone get off and was served from a bid pot of goodness knows what at an outdoor roadside cafe. When everyone got back on they said it was lovely. What they hadn't seen was any half-eaten bowls were being merrily scraped back into the pot and given a big stir before the next bus arrived. It makes me laugh now, but I was horrified at the time.
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Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Waste not want not ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
Absolutely. I hope everyone's already eaten.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Good evening all....:)
Just back from a training session at the poly (where I had the pleasure of being introduced to another forumite-Hiya deejay!!!!!!!!)....
Catching up on your posts...gosh sounds as if you have had some eye opening experiences...i always wanted to travel but never really got round to it...one day I hope when the kids are up...in the meantime I look forward to hearing all your tales of various jaunts!
anyhow...on a different note....I am still making my way through Staying Alive, the poetry anthology...really liked the following...
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 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.
Clear pebbles of the rain. That is a lovely line. I'd love to be able to come up with lines like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
That line caught my eye too :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
insomniac Tup
wide awake at five a.m
eyes his crumpled bed
I liked the line "no matter who you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination" i found it quite moving.....
Ah DT...at least I am not the only occassional insomniac around here!!!!! gwad bless yer!...i recommend hot milk and a copy of runners world (sometimes does the trick for me)...this poetry thread is the insomniac's dream!Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
'Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air' reminded me of a magical October afternoon up on Skiddaw a couple of years ago watching a skien of geese fly overhead at perhaps 5000ft :)
Imagination:Quote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Are you running from life
or running to life?
It was suicidal starlings round here today. Trying to do that whirling twirling thing they do in thir thousands in galeforce conditions. Points for effort!Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
There's some really great poetry again tonight. I am really enjoying reading this thread again.
Ha ha ha! Like it HHH, very funny. Thanks for your haiku earlier too, it was lovely. I can't believe I've been missing all this travel talk. I'm having to work on a commission and promised myself not to look in on the thread until I had drawn both the snowdrops and the crocuses...oooops!Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
RUNNING
My breath is hampered, my face is bright red.
My legs are becoming weak and useless,
And now my hair is matted to my head,
From all my gross sweating I look a mess.
The hills seem to grow with each step of mine,
The wind whips my legs, as the cold grows worse.
I concentrate on the sidewalks cracked lines.
Blood pumps through my veins, my heart is the source.
When I run my world quickly whizzes by.
Running lets me contemplate my troubles,
My options seem to extend to the sky.
Running down the hill my slow pace doubles.
I start to head home, looking for my street,
Cleansing mind and body, running is a retreat.
(Amanda Rae Klohmann)
That boss of yours is a hard task mistress! Maybe she'll let you back on when you've finished!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
I'm looking forward to my first snowdrops and crocuses already! I've got a lawn full of them come spring.
I used to think sometimes i was running fromQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
but now with the help of some very wise friends
I realise
I am running to
L(l)I(o)F(v)E(e)
i know i know , i am getting a bit predictable...just wanted to say thanks to you guys thats all!
I loved this X Runner...i fear it will be an accurate descriptionof my simonside attempt in two weeks :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by XRunner
I can't think that anyone could have the imagination to write that without actually being a runner. That one works well with me. cheers XR
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