Today's poet

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Originally Posted by Stef F

How did you know; I've just finished a massive clear out and it triggered lots of unhappy and a few happy trips down memory lane.

Out with the old, in with the new; time to move on to a future of rose not blue :)

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Funny how this rang a chord with some of the girls, but none of us lads piped up about tidying. :rolleyes::D

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Originally Posted by Hes

I was looking for a poem about cartharsis for Stef and I found this which isn't about that but is interesting:

How Things Work
by Gary Soto

Today it’s going to cost us twenty dollars
To live. Five for a softball. Four for a book,
A handful of ones for coffee and two sweet rolls,
Bus fare, rosin for your mother’s violin.
We’re completing our task. The tip I left
For the waitress filters down
Like rain, wetting the new roots of a child
Perhaps, a belligerent cat that won’t let go
Of a balled sock until there’s chicken to eat.
As far as I can tell, daughter, it works like this:
You buy bread from a grocery, a bag of apples
From a fruit stand, and what coins
Are passed on helps others buy pencils, glue,
Tickets to a movie in which laughter
Is thrown into their faces.
If we buy a goldfish, someone tries on a hat.
If we buy crayons, someone walks home with a broom.
A tip, a small purchase here and there,
And things just keep going. I guess.

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I like that. Money makes the world goes round as they say, but I'm determined to use the phrase "If we buy a goldfish, someones tries on a hat" in a very profound tone of voice more often.

I have just discovered a previously untapped (for me) source of exciting poetry and I really like this one:

Insect
by Annie Finch

That hour-glass-backed,
orchard-legged,
heavy-headed will,

paper-folded,
wedge-contorted,
savage—dense to kill—

pulls back on backward-moving,
arching
high legs still,

lowered through a deep, knees-reaching,
feathered down
green will,

antenna-honest,
thread-descending,
carpeted as if with skill,

a focus-changing,
sober-reaching,

tracing, killing will.

Teatime

having simple tastes
tonight I will eat gnocchi
potato disguised

Some more good stuff on here tonight as always:cool:
Don't mean my stuff!
How's the job search going
Actually i've found one
Goodbye:)

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

Some more good stuff on here tonight as always:cool:
Don't mean my stuff!
How's the job search going
Actually i've found one
Goodbye:)

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This sounds exciting. Do tell?

I've found one up north to apply for :) My application will go in tomorrow. Cross everything for me please.

[QUOTE=Hes;300581]I was looking for a poem about cartharsis for Stef and I found this which isn't about that but is interesting:QUOTE]

Catharsis; a good word :)

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Originally Posted by Stef F

This sounds exciting. Do tell?

I've found one up north to apply for :) My application will go in tomorrow. Cross everything for me please.

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Lost job just before XOTF, second time in one year:(
Start new job next thursday at Up and Running sports shop in Huddersfield.
Good luck Stef, everything crossed;)

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Originally Posted by merrylegs

Lost job just before XOTF, second time in one year:(
Start new job next thursday at Up and Running sports shop in Huddersfield.
Good luck Stef, everything crossed;)

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Brilliant news Merry! The guys in my local Up and Running are great, very knowledgable, and you'll get some good discount!;)

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Originally Posted by Hes

I'll never throw away my bowls of pebbles, shells, fossils, feathers etc though. I even have a tiny little birds nest that I found in the middle of the road once. It is a thing of beauty.

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ya big softie hes!...love that image of the little bird's nest.....aw